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Summaries of the stories that we read Flashcards

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1
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how do other people feel about the narrator in, in another country

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he is looked down upon because he doesn’t have as many medals as them and he isn’t as outgoing as all of them

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what does the major tell the narrator not to do in, in another country

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get married

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what happened to the majors in, in another country

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she died so he became very upset (obviously)

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where does the narrator go everyday in, in another country

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to the hospital to do his physical therapy type thing along with the other injured soldiers

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what does everyone use to try and heal themselves in, in another country

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machines that are said to work

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what is ironic about the signs that are put up about the machines in, in another country

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the signs show the machines actually working and those soldiers are actually the first ones to be using them
so it gives everyone a false hope

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what does the narrator fear in, in another country

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never being able to be healed

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who is the family in a corn planting

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the hutchenson

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who owns the farm in a corn planting

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the hutchensons

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what ended up happening to will in the corn planting

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he ended up dying

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who has to tell the family the death of will in a corn planting

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hal, his best friend that he met in college

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how does the family react to hal’s news in a corn planting

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they don’t seem to care but everyone has their own way of grieving

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what does the family do after they hear about the death of their son in a corn planting? what did this mean

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they go and plant corn.
new life arises from death
life goes on

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what is ironic in the story a corn planting

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wills father was the one that couldn’t work on the farm anymore so will had to do it all and he was the one that ended up dying first, meaning that he couldn’t help his dad anymore

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how did will end up dying in a corn planting

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in a car accident; alcohol was involved

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what is going on in a worn path

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the narrator, an old lady is walking to get medicine for her grandson

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who does the old lady encounter on her walk in a worn path

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a hunter

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how does the hunter react to seeing the old lady in a worn path

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at first he is nice to her and says that she should just turn around and get some rest but then he starts acting like a jerk and threatens her

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what happens when the old lady finally gets to where she needs to go in a worn path

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she talks to the nurse and then completely forget everything

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what is the old lady’s name in a worn path

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phoenix jackson

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what is the sickness that the boy apparently has in a worn path

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something is wrong with his throat

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is the boy really alive in a worn path

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we don’t know. at first it seems like he is but then as the story goes on it seems more and more that he isn’t and that the old lady is just getting the medicine because she i so used to it

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what does the old lady get as a gift at the very end of a worn path

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a windmill for her grandson

24
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why does the old lady yell at the father in anxiety

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for the way that he was treating his daughter because she never really did anything and he was getting mad

25
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why does the old lady get mad at the father for he did in anxiety

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because she thinks that you have to protect the future generations

26
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where does the old lady live and who else lives with her in anxiety

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most likely in a nursing home and no one else because they have all already died

27
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what did the girl say that made her father so mad in anxiety

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oink oink

28
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what is happening in the jilting of granny witherall

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the old lady is dying and she is sitting there thinking about everything in the past

29
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who is the old lady usually thinking about in the jilting

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her ex husband. she wants to tell him that he didn’t “win” and that she is over what he did

30
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how do the people feel that are taking care of the old lady in the jilting

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they are getting annoyed with her and don’t want to have to deal with her

31
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what happened in april showers

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a lady wanted to get a book published and when she saw the magazine with the books in she thought one of them was hers but iwas really one with the same title so she went to the people that did it

32
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where did the girl have to go about the book in april showers

A

boston

33
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what was the name of the book that the narrator was trying to get published

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april showers

34
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who was there for the narrator when most of the time the person is not

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her father; he said that the same thing happened to him

35
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what weren’t the kids able to do in rock pile and why

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go onto the rock pile because their mother felt that it was to dangerous

36
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who are the two boys in the rock pile

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roy and john

37
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what did the two boys do everyday

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watch the kid fight and play ion the rock pile and want to go out there and play

38
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who is the one that ends up going down to play

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roy

39
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what happens to roy in the rock pile when he goes down there

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he gets hit in the face with a can and gets a cut

40
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could roy getting hurt have been stopped

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yes his brother john knew that he was going down there when he knew that he wasn’t supposed to and he never told his mother

41
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who’s fault does the mom think the whole rock pile things is

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no ones, she just doesn’t want to get into a fight or argue with anyone

42
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who’s fault did the father think it was in rockpile

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he thought it was roy’s because he was the one that did it

43
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what happened in the landlady

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a guy was trying to find a place to stay, he found a bed and breakfast, stayed there, there was no one else there, the lady was creepy but he couldn’t realize that, she tried to poison him, once he died he was going to stuff him like the other two guests that she had before. see, she is really creepy

44
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who were the other two guests in the landlady

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Christopher mulholland and Gregory W. Temple

45
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how the did the landlady try poisoning him

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with tea that she made him

46
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where were the other two guests in the landlady

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they were on the very top floor

they were dead and stuffed as we find out in the story

47
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how old is the boy in beelzy

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6 years old

48
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what does the father think the boy has in beelzy

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just an imaginary friend

49
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who really is beelzy’s “imaginary friend”

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the devil

50
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what does the boy do that makes us think that it is the devil in beelzy

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the games that he plays are things that symbolize the devil

51
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what happens to the father

A

he is eaten by the devil for not understanding that it really wasn’t just an imaginary friend

52
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who died in the writer in the family

A

jack

53
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does the family tell the mother of jack’s death? why or why not

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no they do not. they don’t tell her because she is sick herself so they don’t want the news to be to much for her

54
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what does the family say happened to jack in writer in the family

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he moved to Arizona for his bronchitis

55
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what does the old lady get upset about in the writer in the family

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that jack hadn’t written to her while he was away

56
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what does the family do about the writing thing in the writer in the family

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they have Johnathan, another family member write the letters acting as jack. she believes that it is really him

57
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does the old lady find out about the whole letter thing in the writer in the family

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yes she does

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