1. Compare Reuven's injury to Billy and Mr. Savo. How is Reuven injured? How is Billy injured? How is Mr. Savo injured? (worth 3 points)
2. What if Reuven had been hit in the jaw instead of the eye? What do eyes symbolize? How would having a broken JAW change the actual message of the story? (2 points)
3. What is the year this story takes place? 1 9 __ __
Bonus: how do you know?
4. Danny has an eidetic (photographic) memory. How does having a photographic memory affect Daniel and those around him? How will it influence his career and life? (2 points)
5. What does Danny feel forced to do when he grows up. WHY? (2 points)
6. What does Reuven want to be when he grows up? (1 point)
Journal Write:Choose ONE of the following prompts and write for 15 minutes.
- Write about a time you were seriously injured and went to the hospital. How did it happen? How old were you? What was the treatment? How did your parents react? Be DESCRIPTIVE.
- Compare your father to David Malter. Be specific: how is he like or different in specific areas to David Malter.
- Write about a time when you experienced "hubris" or terrific overconfidence. You assumed you had everything under control or "in the bag" only to realize you did NOT when things fell apart. Who/what/when/where/why/how? Tell the story.
- Have you ever had to apologize (profusely) for doing something? What was it? What did you say? Who did you have to apologize to? How did it turn out? Did they forgive you? Do you agree with David Malter when he says, "If a person comes to apologize for having hurt you, you must listen and forgive him."
Notes:
Fold a piece of paper in half. Label one side Reuven and the other side Danny.
We'll discuss parallelism and tie it back to "Allegory of the Cave." (Betcha thought we were done with that one! HA!)
Homework
“The Fathers”-- Read chapter 4 for homework (to page 92) Next time we'll be discussing FATHERS, so you'll want to be particularly aware of what's going on with all the fathers in the story. :)
