Put together yearbook poems from seniors.
Continue working on workshop stories.
READ: Tobias Wolff: "Hunters in the Snow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEVdhN06JZg
Brueghel painting
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/huntsnow.html
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Tobias-Wolffs-Hunters-in-the-Snow
Think, Pair, Share: Discuss in group. Post group answer to questions on blog.
Group 1:
Discussion Question 1 Discuss the very first interaction between Tub, Frank, and Kenny. How does this interaction set the tone of the story and the character relationships?
Discussion Question 2 How do these pages of the story portray and develop the dynamic between Frank and Kenny? In what ways is the dynamic of their relationship significant?
Discussion Question 3 In what ways are Frank and Kenny insensitive towards Tub in these pages, specifically in reference to Tub’s weight? How might this insensitivity be significant in the story?
Group 2:
Discussion Question 1
What causes and factors lead Tub to shoot Kenny? What are the literal and symbolic significances of this moment and of the related factors?
Discussion Question 2
What are the possible narrative and thematic significances of the scene inside the farmer’s house? How does this scene relate to the overall story?
Discussion Question 3
How does the dynamic between Frank and Tub shift after they exit the farmer’s house/ What are the causes and significances of this shift?
Group 3:
Discussion Question 1
What secret does Frank admit to Tub? What are the narrative/thematic significances of the secret and Tub’s reaction to it?
Discussion Question 2
What secret does Tub admit to Frank? What are the narrative/thematic significances of the secret and Frank’s reaction to it?
Discussion Question 3
What is the tone and significance of the story’s conclusion? How does the ending relate to the overall story?
Discussion Question 1
ReplyDeleteWhat secret does Frank admit to Tub? What are the narrative/thematic significances of the secret and Tub’s reaction to it?
Answer: Frank tells Tub about Roxanne Brewer, the fifteen year old babysitter he is in love with. He also confesses to Tub that he hasn’t told Nancy, his wife, about his relationship with her. Tub seems to be in shock about the sudden confession, he thinks that the relationship between them is quite disturbing, because of the fact that she is significantly younger than Frank. Frank seems to be the one that is always okay and the mature, but the roles seems to switch.
Discussion Question 2
What is the tone and significance of the story’s conclusion? How does the ending relate to the overall story?
Answer: The tone of the serious seems to be a little playful at first, with all of them hanging out and talking, but then as the story progresses it gets more serious. The turning point or change of tone, I think would be when Tub shot Frank. The story is pretty ironic, how the tables turn. Tub goes from being the object of ridicule and feeling inferior compared to Kenny, to being the one that controls Kenny fate.
Oh and this is me, Andrea's, and Asher's response.
Delete1. Kenny's treatment of Tub has put him on edge recently and he feels that Kenny is kind of a dick. After Kenny gets all trigger happy, Tub fears for his life and shoots Kenny in self defense.
ReplyDelete2. It is a big ironic moment in the narrative, as it is revealed that Kenny was asked to kill the dog in the first place (why he didn't tell his friend that, I don't know). The shooting of the dog is also parallel to the shooting of Kenny.
3. Frank and Tub open up about their feelings. They do this because of the clarity they both receive after Kenny is shot. Tub talks about his eating and Frank about his lust for an underage girl and how he's planning to leave his wife.
(the group is Emani, Raina, and Kaneil by the way.)
group III:
ReplyDelete1 (and 2)
Frank admits he's in love with a babysitter who's fifteen years old. He says he hasn't told his wife yet, which adds to Tub's shock. Before then, Frank was the adult in the story, and now he's a weird pedophile, making Tub a much better character and role model.
3
The story begins lightheartedly, but turns serious after Tub shoots Frank. Which is fine by me, considering that Frank is in love with a fifteen year old.
Justice and I
DeleteGroup 1: Delimar, Faduma, Fadumo, Mariangelis
ReplyDelete1. They're not only late to pick Tub up, but they also attempt to run him over as a joke. They laugh about it in his face and Tub doesn't feel comfortable about it. There's a kind of immature friendship between the three. What the readers realize at the beginning of the story is that they mess around quite often, and they're immature. They're condescending towards Tub. Since we already know that the three have this characteristic of being immature, and they don't get along with one another as they should, something bad will happen. There's a disconnection between the three friends, so they don't cooperate as well as they should.
2.Kenny is the leader of the group. He bosses them around. Frank is like the sidekick/partner when it comes to bullying tub. He agrees with Kenny’s immature thoughts and ideas. For example in the beginning when they were in the car joking about how they ran Tub over, they both thought it was funny. They both make fun of Tub’s weight. Their relationship is significant to the story because when Frank and Tub become closer after Kenny gets shot, it shows how Kenny is a dying character figuratively and literally.
3.Frank and Kenny are insensitive towards Tub in the way that they make jokes about how he's actually not on a diet. They constantly make fun of his weight and they don't see how this affects him emotionally. Kenny says to him, "All I can say is, it's the first diet I ever heard of where you gained weight from it.". He must know that this annoys Tub but he seems to be insensitive. In a way the three are immature. They all act in a way that they shouldn't, like children. Tub constantly complains about things. All he wants is to be liked by them and to feel accepted. The insensitivity that they show towards him is what characterizes him in the story. He comes off as a sensitive person, hurt by the things that they say, angry. This is significant to the story because if they weren't this way towards him Tub would be a completely different character. He would possibly show more confidence, and he wouldn't be seen as weak. Towards the end of the story, when Frank and Tub have a better relationship Frank wants to give Tub a bunch of pancakes and make him eat it all so that he feels better. Frank feels bad for the jokes he made about Tub’s weight before because he didn’t know Tub would take it to heart, like Tub confessed.