Fri. Oct. 16,2015: "The Possibility of Evil" Questions

Today, you were to have actively read the short story "The Possibility of Evil." You are now to answer the questions that have been put in your portfolio. These are to be completed for Tuesday.

Here are the questions for those who were absent Friday:

“The Possibility of Evil”: Questions

For each of these questions, you must flip the question into the answer and then answer it. This will help you organize your thoughts when we get down to essay writing. Failure to do this will effect the mark.

1.       How many paragraphs are in this short story (be sure to number them in pencil for future reference)? Which two appear to start differently in formatting than the rest? How are they different?

2. What is Miss Strangeworth’s first name? How old is she?

3. What is the most time that Miss Strangeworth has ever spent outside of her town?

4. What evidence, from the grocery store, does the author give to prove that Miss Strangeworth is well known in her town?

5. What didn’t Miss Strangeworth like what about Miss. Chandler?

6. Describe the paper that Miss Strangeworth used to write her letters on. How does it contrast with Miss Strangeworth’s usual stationary? Why does she have to have two types?

7. Summarize Miss Strangeworth’s suggestion (letter) to Mrs. Foster (in your own words!!!!).

8. Read the story over. This time, highlight all the examples of foreshadowing that you can find. Write down two examples of foreshadowing that the author used to hint that Miss Strangeworth’s character might not be all that “normal.”

9.      What is the setting of this short story (include general location as well as specific)?

10. List and explain all of the conflicts present in this story as they relate to the following characters (do this in list form). Tell me what their goal is and who their conflict is with:

·         Miss Strangeworth

·         Mr. Lewis

·         Linda Stewart

·         Mrs.Harper (she has two)

·         Mrs. Foster (she has two)

·         Mr. Crane

11. What is the point of view of this story?

12. What is the theme of this story (what are we supposed to learn from reading it?)