Questions to Consider:

1. In what way are the cigarette butts symbolic?

Questions to Consider:

1. How is Will Harris characterized in this story? (Use adjectives and describing words and then identify what characterization Junius Edwards used to create that effect.)

2. Charlie is overall quiet in this exchange, but is a powerful character. How does he reveal his power throughout the text?

3. Trace the incidents of non-verbal communication in the story. Make a list (with page numbers) of each time such communication exists. Look at the list and analyze what is being communicated and discuss whether you believe that the verbal or nonverbal communication is more powerful in this text.

Questions to Consider:

1. As mentioned during yesterday's discussion, Sam's questions get more random and nitpicky and this causes Will to hesitate in his answers. Choose the 2 pieces of text evidence that best reveal this shift.

Questions to Consider:

1. What was the author's most likely purpose for introducing the story through a third person limited point of view?

Question to Consider:

1. What feelings are evoked throughout the text? Consider if you are channeling the feelings of the characters or if they are coming from within you solely.

Questions to consider:

1. Look back at the first paragraph of the story. How does the author hint at the conflict and the resolution of the story?

2. The ending of the story involves Will Harris looking up at the flag. What do you think about this? What does he hope to see and what is he actually seeing? How does that connect to his experience or life?