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Question 1

“A Worn Path” - Eudora Welty
1. Why does Phoenix go on a quest?
2. What is the theme?
3. Why is Phoenix appropriately named?

Answer 1

1. To get medicine for her grandson
2. Love heals all.
3. She falls and gets hurt over and over during the trip but she always gets back up.

Question 2

“Jilting of Granny Weatherall” - Katherine Anne Porter
1. What does Granny wish for George?
2. How is her death symbolized?
3. What are two ways granny is jilted?

Answer 2

1. To see her children grow up.
2. light going out
3. George leaves her at the alter, and God never responds to her prayers.

Question 3

“Where is Here?” - Joyce Carol Oates
1. How does Oates build suspense?
2. Who might the stranger be?
3. What aspects are left ambiguous?

Answer 3

1. Building an eerie setting, and by relating the man to a past life in the house.
2. A dead boy that used to live there.
3. His childhood/ who he is.

Question 4

“Life you save may be your own” - Flannery O’Connor
1. Grotesque Characters?
2. How are the mother and Shiftlet similar?
3. Examples of irony?

Answer 4

1. Lucynell (D) and Shiftlet because there are forgivable parts of there characters however they aren’t completely innocent.
2. Both do whatever they have to in order to get what they want.
3. Shiftlet looks out for hitchhikers but leaves Lucynell in the diner.