Day4

Day 4 7-12-10

Read __The Slump__ - 978-980 and answer questions 1-10 on 980-981 Read __The Story of an Hour__ pages 549-552 and answer questions 1-9 on 553

__The Slump__ 1) The newspapers and the coaches say that narrator's slump is all just reflexes. The narrator thinks that its because he can't see the ball the way he used to. 2) The narrator got the butterflies when he saw the kids waiting outside. Now he just passes them at the right amount of speed for he won't run them over. 3) The Narrator gives the crowd the old hawk profile, where once the flutters would ease off, now they dig down and begin. 4) The narrator decides to change his pace. Its not knowing that your there but believing that you are there. 5) This statement is trying to say that if a person doesn't look hard enough he/she wont find what its looking for. 6) The narrator attitude towards baseball changes because as the narrator said, it wasn't like it used to be over time you are just not as good but that doesn't mean to give up. 7) The narrator is laying down on the beach and compares the waves wit basebal when up to the plate. 8) The narrator is tryin to say that just being there isn't enough believing and everyone else believing in you is what helps. 9) The story is trying to say that fame is awsome at one point in life until a person starts aging and doesnt have the same ability as before. The story is also trying to say is to do what makes a person happy. 10) The hungry part is just a phrase trying to say that the narrator is not putting in as much as he used to, and its not that the narrator doesn't want to its that he's feeling different. To succeed in life a person has to be always hungry for more.

__The Story of an Hour__ 1) Mrs. Mallard had heart problems. 2) Mrs. Mallard first was sad as a natural reaction to a husbands death, but then she felt happy because she was now free from him. 3) The person that opens the door is Brently Mallard which was Mrs. Mallard's husband, she ends up dieing from seeing him. 4) The other meaning could be that she felt hurt because she was always being controlled by her husband. 5) Mrs. Mallard felt like life was over when they told her about her husbands death and the foreshadow is that she dies at the end. 6) She was mad that her husband was too controlling. 7) Chopin uses the chair scene as her being stuck in her room looking outside the window without being able to be outside. 8) Mrs. Mallard's death probably did have to do with her heart disease but also her seeing her husband and knowing she wouldnt be free also upset her. 9) The significance of the title is that anything can happen at any giving time.