wow, you guys must have some atrocious english teachers. or horrible curriculum, either way. asking details like that is... well, pointless, and doesn't show that you have a good understanding of the book. it shows that you did nothing but memorize every minute detail of the book.
how about the big picture? do you get any questions asking about the theme? how a character's past affects their actions? EXISTENSIALISM?! HMMM??
(i don't even know what existensialism is)
anyway your "honors" class sounds like a "general" class, and a joke. assigning busywork like "rewriting the book as a play" makes no sense and does nothing to improve your understanding of the material. to study? i recommend taking the book, and reading chapters 3 and 4, taking notes about anything that doesn't have any importance in or relevance to the story. then memoraize that list. sounds like what your teacher's doing..
oh, i figure i might as well ruin the endings of several of the "canon" books you might read.
Of Mice and Men - george and lenny find a farm, they work, lenny accidentally kills the tart, george kills lenny.
Lord of the Flies - kids crashland on an island, turn into savages (except for the main character [forget name], piggy, and the twins [..anderik?]). savages kill piggy, navy finds them and they cry.
A Separate Peace - 2 kids at a sort of a boarding school / military school resist the war. the friend of the main character (i'm bad with names) breaks his leg, and dies when some bone marrow travels to his heart when they try to set it.
Jane Eyre - a bad, bad book. i read 86 pages out of 450 and still got more than 100% on the test. oh yeah. but jane marries rochester. that's about it.
The Scarlet Letter - another really bad book. Hester screws around with Dimmesdale, husband finds out (under another name - chillingsworth), Hester gets scarlet letter, Dimmesdale is consumed with guilt, he and Hester plan to run off, but he dies at the end. As does Chillingsworth. And Hester's grave has a scarlet letter on it.
The Grapes of Wrath - a really good book. Joads crops are destroyed in dust bowl, decide to go west cause they got a "han'bill" that says there's plenty of work out there, grandparents die on the way, they get there and it's crappy, and the work is scarce, and at the end there's a flood and Rose of Sharon's baby is a miscarriage, they send baby down river. favorite chapter - 25, favorite quote from it - "and children must die from pellagra, because a profit cannot be taken from an orange." BEAUTIFUL chapter.
Light in August - bad bad bad AWFULLY HORRIBLY BAD book. Lena Grove looks for Lucas Burch, the guy who knocked her up, and ends up in a small town. Lucas has named himself Joe Brown, IIRC. he hangs out with Joe Christmas, a mulatto with a really f'ed up self-image and who had a really crappy childhood. eventually something happens, Joe Christmas goes all hibbity-gibbity (this is the part i read when i was half asleep), and he's castrated by some random guy. ??!!# WTF Lena has her baby all this while, and then she goes off with Byron Bunch, some flat character who's supposed to be a comical blunderer. whatever. oh and there's a guy named hightower who dies.
The Old Man and the Sea - a short, pretty simple book, that's not too heavy on the symbolism. i liked it. i dunno. but santiago catches the big damn fish and tries to take it home, but it's eaten by sharks, and he's on the verge of death when he gets home.
The Great Gatsby - i like this book. i dunno. the story isn't all
that interesting, but for some reason i found myself thinking about it a lot after a read it. also had some really well-developed characters towards whom i really felt a lot of things. can't say the same about a lot of books. umm, gatsby is killed by the mechanic cause the mechanic thinks it was gatsby who killed his wife, when it was really daisy, accidentally, but gatsby took the blame for daisy. cause he loved her.
When the Legends Die - about an indian (native american) boy who is raised in the old way by his parents, parents die, he's alone for a few years, then they take him and put him in school. they try to force him to be a "regular" person. then he herds sheep, and then he rides broncos, for several years. and he comes to realize that that's not who he is, and decides to be his own person, and not what others want him to be. i liked it.
The Awakening - Edna Pontiller, married, falls in love with Robert, Robert moves to Mexico, while he's gone she starts hanging out with Alcee Arobin, and then Robert comes back, and he leaves "--because i love you", and she drowns herself in the ocean. confusing. but i suppose it's about her not conforming to society's demands of a woman and being her own person.
Daisy Miller - bad bad bad, just bad writing. the main character (i read this last week and i can't remember his name, that's how forgettable this book was) gets a crush on Daisy Miller, really named Annie (for no reason i can see), and they go to a castle, and she's a flirt, and then she goes to Rome, and she "falls in love" with some charlie chaplin-esque artiste, and then the main character goes to see her, and she dies. wtf?! a short book about a bunch of flat characters that you don't care about doing things that are of little importance.
10th, 11th, and the first 3 books of 12th grades there. and i don't remember what material Rose of Sharon's skirt was made of, and it doesn't matter, because that's not what makes a book a book.
OK enough of that damn DBP fanboy banner. i'm NOT a DBP fanboy in any way. i haven't used DBP in over a year, and i don't really plan on using it again.
