501 Critical Reading Questions
Critical Reading Questions
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501 Critical Reading Questions
Critical Reading Questions
the rich boys will run the government, run the world (lines 11–12). The author and those in his socio-economic class will be laborers (lines 12–14). The author emphasizes the certainty of this knowl- edge with the repetition of the phrase we know and the sentence We know that (line 15). Thus he demonstrates that their future was already set based upon their socio-economic standing. 238. a. Lines 6-7 reveal that there are two rooms and lines 9–10 describe the truck delivering furniture downstairs. 239. b. Lines 1–5 state that after Pauline became pregnant, Cholly had acted like the early days of their marriage when he would ask if she were tired or wanted him to bring her something from the store. This statement suggests that Cholly had not done that for a while, and therefore had begun to neglect Pauline. 240. e Although there is a state of ease (line 5) in the relationship between Pauline and Cholly, there is intense loneliness for Pauline. There may be less tension in this state of ease, but there does not appear to be more intimacy, because the loneliness prevails. We can infer that back home she was living with her family, not Cholly, and that Pauline would expect her husband to fulfill her need for compan- ionship. 241. a. At the end of the passage, Pauline rediscovers her dreams of romance. Line 14 tells us she succumbed to her earlier dreams, and the following sentence tells us what whose dreams were about: romantic love. 242. c. Because the narrator states that romantic love and physical beauty are probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought (lines 15–16) because they both originated in envy, thrived in insecu- rity, and ended in disillusion, and because these are the two ideas Pauline was introduced to in the theater, we can infer that she will only become more unhappy as a result of going to the movies. 243. e. Lines 4–5 refer to the reservation jukebox, and line 12 refers to the reservation as well. If Thomas, Chess, and Checkers live on a reservation, they are most likely Native American. 244. Download 0.98 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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