Montag begins to ponder upon the happiness, or lack there of, in the life of him and his wife, Mildred, which happens to be a terribly ugly name. when random men come to his house with stomach pumping machines transfuse Mildreds blood and pump her stomach, they have a conversation about this happening 9 to 10 times per night. The large amount of suicide attempts show that it is a very unhappy society, though when the self destructive victims awaken they have a loss of memory regarding incidents of the night before. A conversation between Montag and his wife also revealed that the pills they take have some sort of chemical compound in them which gets you "all dopey", so the people in this society are likely often high on downers, making life around them seem absent and like nothing at all. If they are unable to really feel, then they have no interest in objectifying being ridden by the government. Montag is beginning wake up and realize that all is not how it should be, and it seems to really be driving its way into his head.

So far Fahrenheit 451 is about a FireMan named Montag. Unlike the Firemen of the modern age, these men are trained to start fires instead of putting them out. Montag is a very shallow minded worker who loves his job and doesn’t stop to think about what hes doing or whats going on around him. He was walking home when he came a crossed a mysterious girl who introduced herself and began walking with him she was his neighbor and is described very symbolically in a way that portrays her as knowledgeable and 

Granddaddy Cain and Pa Sexton both have similar physic, strong will, and persistence in helping their family members out of sticky situation, though they are both from separate stories and authors.

Granddaddy Cain is a black man with thick African-American culture dialect. He’s large, tall, muscular, and holds himself well. The story takes place during the depression in a Georgia neighborhood. As Granddaddy Cain was heading back home after hunting for falcon out in the fields, he was greeted with an aggravated Mrs. Cain and two foolish Cameramen trying their best to sneak around him as if he had an extra chromosome. He avoided all contact with them at first; focusing on the Misses and the dead falcon he had hanging over his shoulder. This already shows that he is both humble, and as a third cousin Cathy said, “…he’s so tall and quiet like a king”. When Mrs. Cain told him to “Get them persons out of my flower bed, Mister Cain”, he approached them subtly with a polite and deep “good day, gentlemen”. He then extended his arm, awaiting the heavy machinery. Normally a camera the size of the ones they used back in the day would be hard to handle with a single arm, but Granddaddy Cain had hands that were “…all still and gentle to be not at all a hand, but a person in itself”. With the flick of a wrist the camera was nothing more than bludgeoned cluster of wires and metal.

Pa sexton is as well a tall and muscular man, though a white farmer. He hailed from Georgia as well and had a very thick southern dialect. As a farmer back in the 1930’s, he was keener on farm work, with leathery tan weather beaten skin and a strong body, than he was with keeping up with city folk and the modern way of life. His problems arose when his son, Dave Sexton came home two hours late with stories of breaking a cherry tree and having to pay it off, though the other boys who aided in the trees ‘accidental vandalism’ paid their dollar and weren’t forced to stay and work for it, “his eyes danced like fire”. Pa saw this as a discrimination against the poor and felt like he needed to put a stop to it. Growing up in a very different time, his only plausible solution was to bring his revolver to Dave’s class and shoot his teacher, Professor Herbert to prove his point that “a bullet goes through a rich man the same as it does a poor man”.

Both characters found them selves in very different situations, but went out of their way to stop what they saw as the opposing force from putting its foot down on their family. Cain crushed a camera to rid of two men filming for the anti-food stamp act because they were pestering his wife and family, while Pa sought to dismantle what he saw is discrimination towards the economic class of his family, specifically aimed at his son. Not to mention they both have southern dialects to some extent, are hardworking in order to provide for them and theirs, and have a toned physic from working. Even though both characters were from different stories that were written by different authors, they were quite alike.

Be able to define: blues, irony, foreshadow, dialect, conflict, character, plot, tone, theme, symbol, protagonist, antagonist, static character, dynamic character, round character, flat character, allusion

Irony (3 types - situational, dramatic, verbal):
Verbal irony: When you say something that is not meant.

Situational irony: When the outcome is the opposite of what happens

Dramatic irony: When the reader knows something that the characters do not. What the speaker of a thing say is the opposite is what the author means.


Foreshadow: A hint at what will happen later in a story

Dialect: A kind of accent for book characters. Tells you a lot about the character

Conflict: the main problem in a story

Character: Anything that acts in a story

Plot: Six parts of the story:
Exposition: The setup of the story
Inciting event: The beginning of the conflict
Rising action: Escalation of the conflict
Climax: the height of the problem
Falling action: de-escalation of the problem
Resolution: the problem resolved

Theme: The main idea of a story

Symbol: Anything in the story that holds great meaning

Protagonist: The main character. Not necessarily good or bad

Antagonist: The opposing force of the protagonist

Static Character: A person who stay the same over a story

Dynamic Character: a person who’s views change over the course of a story

Round Character: A character you know a lot about

Flat Character: a character that you know very little about

Allusion: A reference to art, history, music, and other literatures

2) For each story be able to list the protagonist and the antagonist and the type of conflict
a) “The Most Dangerous Game”
P: Rainsford
A: Zaroff
C: Person v. Person
b) “The Cask of Amontillado”
P: Montressor
C: Person v. Self

A: Montressor

 “The Lady or the Tiger”
P: Princess
A: Princess
C: Person v. Self

 “The Split Cherry Tree”
P: Pa
A: Pa
C: Person v. self, Person v. Society

 “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”
P: Granny
A: Camera & Smilin’
C: Person v. Society

 “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
P: Paul Berlin
A: Paul Berlin
C: Person v. self

3) For each story pick out which characters are round, which characters are flat, which characters are static and which characters are dynamic and briefly discuss why they fit the category you chose.

“The Most Dangerous Game”
R: Rainsford, Zaroff
F: Whitney, Ivan
S: Zaroff, Ivan, Whitney
D: Rainsford



b) “The Cask of Amontillado”
R: Montressor, Fortunato
F: None
S: Fortunato
D: None


c) “The Lady or the Tiger”
R: Princess
F: King, guy
S: King, Guy
D: None



d) “The Split Cherry Tree”
R: Dave, Pa
F: Prof Herbert
S: Prof. Herbert
D: Pa, Dave



e) “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”
R: Granny, Cain,
F: Camera, Smilin’
S: Every one
D: None




g) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
R: Paul Berlin
F: Billy, Buff
S: Billy, Buff
D: Paul Berlin

4) for each story list the point of view it is told from

a) “The Most Dangerous Game”
3rd omniscient

b) “The Cask of Amontillado”
3rd limited

c) “The Lady or the Tiger”
3rd omniscient

d) “The Split Cherry Tree”
1st

e) “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”
1st

g) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
3rd limited


5) For each story write out a theme using “writing a theme” guide and the six elements of theme

a) “The Most Dangerous Game”
Views change when you are put in a sticky situation


b) “The Lady or the Tiger”
Sometimes decisions have no good side


c) “The Split Cherry Tree”
society can pass you by if you let it


d) “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird
You can’t let people push you around to get what they want.


e) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
The fear of war never goes away


6) For each story list one event for each of the six elements of plot (exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

a) “The Most Dangerous Game”
Exposition: Whitney and Rainsford talk about the ethics of hunting

inciting event: Rainsford falls off the boat, and swims toward the island

rising action: Rainsford gets to the island, The finds the mansion, is confronted by Zaroff, gets into Zaroff’s crazy killing game.

Climax: Rainsford jumps off a cliff, and Zaroff feels cheated

falling action: Zaroff has dinner, goes into his room, and Rainsford is there

resolution: Rainsford kills Zaroff, and feeds him to his dogs




c) “The Lady or the Tiger”

exposition: Tells about the king’s grand coliseums

inciting event: Tells about how the princess had an affair with a normal guy

rising action: The guy goes into the arena, he bows to the king, and looks the princess in the eye

climax: The princess tells him to go to the right door with her eyes

falling action: The goes to it, and grabs the handle

resolution: none


d) “The Split Cherry Tree”

exposition: Dave helps clean up the school as part of punishment for breaking a tree

inciting event: He rushes home two hours late, and his father is not happy with him.

Rising action: Dave tells Pa about the tree, and how if he could pay the school $.50, he would owe anything, Pa takes this as an outrage, thinking that they are discriminating against the poor. The next day Pa goes to school with Dave, and brings his gun.

Climax: Pa sets his gun on Prof. Herbert’s desk and threatens him with it.

Falling action: Prof. takes Pa around the school and shows him all the changes since Pa was in school.

Resolution: Pa realizes his mistake and doesn’t hate the school anymore


e) “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”

exposition: Cathy, Tyrone, Terry, narrator, and granny are in the yard

inciting event: Two camera men show up and start filming them

rising action: Granny tells them to piss off, Terry and Tyrone get in a tussle, and Granddaddy Cain comes back w/ a chicken hawk over his shoulder

climax: The other chicken hawk comes to try and save the other. Cain kills it with a hammer

falling action: Cain tells the camera men to give him the camera, he crushes it, and they go away

resolution: The Cain family goes about its business


f) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”


exposition: Paul Berlin goes through the jungle of ‘Nam

inciting event: Paul thinks back to Billy Boy, who died of a heart attack

rising action: Paul pretends to be back with his dad. He gets threatened to be shot at for sleeping, and meets a man called Buff.

Climax: Paul goes into a giggling fit

falling action: Buff knocks him out

resolution: Paul realizes that even when he gets to the sea, he will still be afraid


g) “The Cask of Amontillado”

exposition: Montressor tells us about all the times Fortunato wronged him.

Inciting event: Montressor invites a drunk Fortunato over for a bottle of Amontillado

rising action: They begin to go deeper into Montressor’s catacombs, Them drinking to Fortunato’s long life, and making terrible masonry pun

climax: Montressor chains Fortunato to the very back wall

falling action: Montressor begins walling Fortunato in

resolution: Montressor leaves Fortunato down there, no feeling any guilt that he killed him.


7) For the following stories pick out two or more examples of allusion and discuss what it alludes to:

“Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”
Aunty: Derogatory term for female black folk
Dog named Bingo: Reference to the song

a) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
The title: an old folk song.
Where he is: historical


“The Most Dangerous Game”
Zaroff invested in American Securities: historical
They have motorized boats: historical


8) For the following stories list at least one example of foreshadow and briefly discuss what it hints will happen:

“The Most Dangerous Game”
The talk about the ethics of hunting: Early in a story, if the main character shares his beliefs on something, they will usually be tested


a) “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy”
Mentioning of Billy early on: means he will play a key part in the story later on

“The Lady or the Tiger”
The whole coliseums set-up tells you that a big choice is about to be made.

9) For the following stories pick out an example of irony and discuss why its ironic:

“The Most Dangerous Game”
The whole animal ethics talk: Rainsford believes that the hunted have no feelings, and then he becomes the hunted

“The Cask of Amontillado”
Montressor toasting to Fortunato’s long life: He doesn’t mean it, as he kills him.

10) For the following stories discuss what the following symbols and or images represent and mean:


“The Split Cherry Tree”: The cherry tree
The cherry tree is a symbol of spring

The tree imagery: Dead-leaf, hands like gnarled roots, face like a ripe fodder blade:
Pa is comparing himself to an old, tree

“Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”: The title
Mocking birds repeat, and the blues don’t repeat

The two chicken hawks:
When the female hawk was stuck (Granny stuck by the Camera men), the other hawk came to the rescue (Cain coming and sending the camera men away)

“The Cask of Amontillado” – all the symbols
Cask: casket
Fortunato’s clothes: He is dressed like a fool, which he is one
The trowel: A symbol of masonry, and of Fortunato’s demise

11) Briefly discuss how dialect is used in “The Split Cherry Tree”? What does it tell us about Pa, Dave and Professor Luster? Why is dialect important in this story? Why is dialect important in “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”?

Dialect is important in “Split Cherry Tree” because it tells in a way, there education. Prof. has good, proper English because he was taught it, and Dave has a slightly country accent because he is still in school and is raised in the country. Pa has bad English because he is 65, and didn’t really go to school.

Dialect is also important in Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird because, in a way, it helps to distinguish between different ethnic groups.

12) Both Toni Cade Bambara and Jesse Stuart use imagery to build the characters of Granddaddy Cain and Luster (Pa) Sexton. Both of these characters have some similarities and some differences. In an essay with a definite thesis statement compare and contrast the two characters—what they look like, the metaphors involved in their description, how they act and how they think. Please do not say they author never says. Think about what might be implied.

13) List the setting for every story.

Ship-Trap Island

The King’s Arena

Catacombs

School, Dave’s house

Vietnam

Cain house

14) Identify the following characters with a detailed description of their physical, intellectual and emotional qualities (everything you know about them):


Granddaddy Cain: Old, black, strong, large, tall, silent, family-oriented

Granny: Old, Black, Cranky, short-tempered, small

Cathy: small, black, young, tries to be older than she is

Smilin: white, pushy, invasive, and persistent

Camera: White, pushy, invasive, persistent

General Zaroff: Middle-aged, white, deranged, murderous,

Rainsford: Youngish, hunter, nice,

Paul Berlin: Frightened, delirious, young, weak,

The Princess: Crazy, young, pretty, naïve, foolish

The King: Older, murderous, rich

The Princess’ Lover: youngish, naïve, handsome

Pa Sexton: Old, black-haired, sheep-skin coat, strong, tall, buck-skin boots, blue shirt, black hat

Dave Sexton: youngest of siblings, works hard to please, submissive, hard-worker

Professor Herbert: fat, city-slicker, grey-hair, grey coat

grandaddy cain is a tall and indépendant black farmer, who dont need no man

similes-
*"looks like a plastic spiderweb"
*"...it really looked like the crystal paper weight granny kept in the parlor"
*"like it poured cider into the vats..."

metaphors-
*"...granny was, making the cakes drunk"
*"...we aint a bunch of trees"
*"...camera lassoed to his shoulder was buzzin' our way"

allusions-
*"...the way bingo does when you yell at him about the bones on the kitchen floor"
*racial slur "aunty", which was directed towards granny
*the camera men where shooting film for a movie against food stamps

symbol-
when the female chicken hawk was nailed to the door, the male hawk came and tried to help her escape

I think it’s more courageous to go to Canada because trading your freedom for bullets isn’t the best way to start off adulthood. Worrying about what others think during a situation like that could easily get one to give up their life for a war that they aren’t involved in. another problem with accepting the draft is that most people who survive wars come out with intense mental and physical disabilities and they don’t get much from the government nor the army. In an interview, Tim O’Brien was asked if he still regretted joining the army. He responded with “you can go in the army, or you can go to Canada. I never actually made that drive and went to the rainy river. That’s invented. But it did happen in my head all summer long. I thought about driving to Canada.” In his story, “Where Have You, Gone Charming Billy”, he writes about a frightened young soldier who just got onto the battlefield. The soldier, Private First Class Paul Berlin, talked a lot about being frightened of what’s to come. Throughout the story, he ponders on and on about the thoughts of his father as a sense of protection. The way he kept going was by imagining safety as he reached the sea. He drove it into his mind like a drill bit, carving its way into into his skull that it was his only chance of surviving, though when he finally got to the sea, he realized that no one could keep him safe but himself. I can’t imagine having to succumb to the talons of the bandwagon, just to be eaten up and spit right back out by the predators of the jungle, be it bug, beast, or man.