Continue to work on your second person short stories and Scholastic entries.
Be sure to finish The Enchanted. There will be a quiz on Tuesday! Books need to be returned then for other classes to use.
Be sure you can write about the characters, the use of magic realism, and the ending of the novel.
POSSIBLE ESSAY TOPICS:
9. What do you think is the worst punishment that the prisoners in the novel face being locked away? “It is meaning that drives most people forward into time and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe. But what about men like me? For us time doesn’t exist.” Think about time in your life and in the narrator’s. How do you respond to him? What can give a life that is not measured by the events of time real meaning? How is such a life measured? Think about not being able to touch someone or see the sky. How would that affect you for a day? A week? A year? A lifetime?
10. What happens to people when they are incarcerated? How can we make the prison system more humane? Should it be humane or do convicts, regardless of the level of their crimes, “deserve what they get?” As a society, do we see prison more as punishment or as retribution? How can we save people from having failed lives? Is it possible to save someone?
11. Do you think that death offers release for men like York and the narrator? Did they find peace?
12. Like the lady, Rene Denfeld is a fact investigator in death penalty cases. How do you think her work shaped the story? Did reading THE ENCHANTED alter your view of prison?
13. Rene Denfeld touches on many issues and themes: Mental illness, justice, time, kindness, remorse, forgiveness, the need for love and connection, life and death itself. Choose one or two and trace them through the novel, using examples from the novel to enrich your analysis.
14. Why did you choose to read this novel? Did the novel surprise you in any way? Explain why or why not. What did you take away from reading THE ENCHANTED?
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