ESSAY:
SELECT TWO OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND WRITE A WELL-DEVELOPED PARAGRAPH ANSWER FOR EACH. BE SURE TO HAVE A THESIS STATEMENT AND EXAMPLES FROM THE BOOK TO SUPPORT YOUR ESSAYS ANSWERS.
PRINT OUT YOUR ESSAYS: 1-2 PAGES LONG.
CONTINUE TO WORK ON YOUR 2ND PERSON STORY (WHICH IS DUE END OF THE WEEK).
WORK ON CONTEST ENTRIES FOR SOKOL AND GANNON.
8. How do you interpret the book’s ending? What is Jacob choosing when he returns to Friendship? What do you imagine happening to him next?
9. Is Jacob sane at the end of the book? How does the author demonstrate the changes in his mind as conditions worsen?
10. “You’ve stopped believing in evil,” the narrator says of Jacob early in the story (p. 6). “Is that a sin?” Is there evil in this story? Does Jacob come to see it by the end?
11. How do the book’s two epigraphs relate to each other? Why do you think the author chose them?
12. Jacob is committed throughout the book to saving Friendship, and willing to sacrifice himself if necessary. Is he naïve? Does his commitment to principle do more harm than good in the end?
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