Reference no: EM133392409
Questions:
1. Why is Alan nervous to come to this neighborhood? What are some of your feelings? Consider the tone of the first paragraph. What type of story is this? Who told him to?
2. He was expected? How did the old man know? Who is this old man? Take a guess - make note.
3. What does Alan want? Take a guess - make note. Check your guess later when you think you know.
4. Why does the old man out Alan off? Why does he tell this story? Does he have ulterior motives?
5. What does the old man mean when he says this?
6. Alan wants a love potion? Does this match your guess? If not, note what is different about it.
7. Doesn't care about it? It sounds like the girl already likes Alan? What does this comment say about Alan's character?
8. You can now piece together some of Alan's character - uneasy, perhaps shy, insecure, perhaps a little weak, obsessive (?).
9. Is this love?
10. Why does he mention the "life-cleaner" again? Does this foreshadow a later episode in the story?
11. $1.00 - why so much cheaper than the life- cleaner?
12. What is the meaning of the end of the story? Can you see the foreshadowing?
13. Is there a difference between these two expressions?