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Monday, April 20, 2015

Due Tuesday

Many of you need to catch up on your reading and read Hemingway's "In Another Country". If you don't have your book, the story is available online.

You will also need to finish writing down ideas for the questions below.

1. What observations can you make about the point of view of this story? What effect does this have on the reader?

2. What possible symbolism is present in the occupations of the narrator’s three main companions?

3. How is the war described on multiple occasions and what effect does this have on the story?

4. What different elements of the story contribute to a sense of isolation and alienation (or a sense of barriers prohibiting a sense of connection)?

5. What is the importance of the machines? (Hint: It’s not just ‘false hopes and promises of the modern age.’) How do the machines help to illustrate an important irony?

6. What is the importance of the major’s wife dying from pneumonia unexpectedly? What does he counsel the narrator against marriage?