WELCOME STUDENTS!

This is a place for us to discuss openly and honestly the literature we are reading. Here we are all just communicating our thoughts on what we are reading. There are no right and wrong answers. However, you are expected to be polite, mature, and on topic.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

VOICES FROM BEYOND


We are reading and discussing The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. This series of epitaphs contains many themes; the most common of which is life and death. Read the epitaph of Edith Conant, which is on page 140 of our books. What do you feel in Conant's message as to the relationship between the living and the dead? Which lines of her epitaph best convey this theme?

Saturday, August 16, 2008

A LESSON BEFORE DYING


Jefferson's final spoken words to Grant,
at the end of Chapter 28, are "I'm all right, Mr. Wiggins." What is the full
impact of that statement?

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Point of View and Narrator


Why do you think Mark Twain selected Huck, a naive and illiterate young man, as the narrator of this book?