Lesson Details

An Exciting Conclusion!

2014-2015

Freshman Literature, Fall 2014

Date

Dec. 12, 2014

Additional Info
NOTE: Remember the freshman handbooks that you got at the beginning of the semester?? HANG ON TO THOSE! Your teachers next semester will use them more than you did this semester because of the writing information that is in them. (You will be taking freshman writing next semester.)


1. Review terms and allusions 31-35 with a partner.

2. We will finish our reading of "Man From the South."

3. Please respond meaningfully to the following questions:
  • Do you think the narrator would have fallen for the little man's trick? Why or why not? Use details from the story to defend your answer.
  • In what ways does Dahl characterize the little man? What does he want you to think of him? Use details from the story to defend your answer.
  • There is a brilliant bit of situational irony for the reader near the end of the story. How does Dahl set it up, and what is the irony?
  • This story can be read as a satire; that is, something that is poking fun at someone or something. What is Dahl mocking in this story? What might he be saying about British people versus American people? Use details from the story to defend your answer.
  • Using your response from the previous question, what is the theme of this story?