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Literature Test 5 dehon
Test 5 jd salanger and good country people and everday use 9 stories
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Undergraduate 2
11/27/2012

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What physical ailment does Hulga and Manly Pointer share?
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Heart Condition
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Which philosopher did Hulga misunderstand?
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Malebranch "we are not our own light..."
she thought intelectually, not god.
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Whar are freemans daughters names?
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Glunesea and Carramere
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What is in pointers suitcase?
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Hollowed out bible filled with a flask of whiskey, deck of cards and a blue box (probably containing condoms)
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Who is the narrator in "everyday use"
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The mother, she is a first person narrator
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Who is maggie?
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She is the daughter that lives with the mother who was once burned in a house fire that some think her older sister started
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Who is dee/
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The daughter that left home, and is more ambitious than the other sister.
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What is the central theme of every day use?
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It isnt what you have its what makes you happy.
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What is the importance of the yard in everyday use?
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it is similar to a living room, acts as the center of the housesold, it is clean.
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what is dee's name change?
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walker is critical of change, dee represents the familys name and was based on ...
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central theme of this story every day use?
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african heritiage
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after mom describes the yard, what dream does she relate ?
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being a guest on johnny carson
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what does dee want the top of the butter chrun for?
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she wants to use it as decoration, it still has milk left on it from "everyday use"
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what is maggies fiances name?
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john thomas
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what does dee change her name to?
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wangaro
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what is the pattern on the 2 quilts dee wants?
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one was lone star patterns; the other was walk around the mountain
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What are themes in 9 stories?
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difficulty of finding and giving love, tendency to put balue on things rather than people, children are always innocent, phychological effects of WWII
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Why does the story start with Murial in Banana fish?
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salinger is emphasizing what is important to her which is the way she looks. she is superficial
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whats w the trees in bananafish?
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it suggests that he is self destructive and foreshadows his suicide
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what is the significance of seymour pushing the little girl toward the ocean horizon?
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horizon is symbolic of the cusp b/t life and death, also you think he is going to kill the little girl at first.
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what town is sybil from?
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whirly wood, connecticut
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what does seymour accuse the woman in the elevator of doing?
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looking at his feet.
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why does the story start w converstion of sandra and mrs. shel?
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it's tension building, makes you emphathize
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during prior incident, what did the little boy say to lionell
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you stink kid
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what is the food boo boo, lionels mom, wants to bring him?
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pickle
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what is boo boos self titles rank?
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vice admiral
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what is the sumbolism of lionell flippin ghte goggles overboard?
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its a rejection of sight, he doesnt want to see (or be like seymour who sees too much)
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what does lionel think sandra called someone
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a kite, not a kike
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what does the story of down at the dinghy imply?
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that the little boy could be successful, but there is still a possibility of destruction in the future.
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how is the laughing man like the chief?
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they are both unnattractive. laughing man has strange friends and chief is friends w little kids
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what is the buildingsroman in this story (loss of innocence)
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when the chief brings mary around
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name the laughing mans friends
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timberwolf - blackwing
dwarf - omba
giant mongolian - hong
eurasian girl
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laughing mans enimy
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marcel dufarge
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laughingmans food?
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eagles blood
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boy who bursts into tears
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billy walsh
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what does esma want to be when she grows up?
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a jazz singer on the radio
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what color does charlie say his eyes are?
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orange
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what topic does esme want hiim to write about?
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squalor
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what does seargent x write in the book?
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a dostevski quote
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national magazine had corporal z holding what?
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thanksgiving turkeys
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what is corpral z's girlfriends name?
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loretta, she is a psych major
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what is Z's actual name?
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clay
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why is it ironic that z tells x he is not sincere
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because he is too sincere
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what does esme put in the package for x?
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her fathers watch
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