Monday, October 11, 2010

Grade 12 IB (Due before Wednesday, October 13th)

Finish reading Act I of Death of a Salesman. Come up with and post three discussion questions to present to the class about the first act.

3 comments:

  1. English IB B-HL 2
    Dimitrije Miskovic
    Ms. Gelso
    12. October. 2010

    In my opinion some of the most important questions for discussion would be:
    1. How and why we can see that Willy is not satisfied with his current life? Name some examples in order to support your claims.
    2. When Ben enters in the room, Willy acts like he Ben is dead? Willy was talking about the things that he should’ve done in order to protect Ben? Why did he act like that? Was that his reaction just to provoke Ben or just no confuse them all? Explain
    3. After the boys and Linda’s conversation, and after all the decisions that they brought, we could see that Willy became kind of happy? Why is that change? Can we say that the main reason for his unhappiness was that he was not talking to Biff?
    4. Was Biff the main reason why Willy wanted to commit a suicide? According to the evidence, none of his accidents were really accidentally made. Why he was trying to commit a suicide while driving?

    I found these questions very interesting but meanwhile very good to discuss and you can really get a lot of ideas for book’s continuation.

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  2. Why does Willy Loman so obviously prefer Biff to Happy, even if Happy is more started in his job?

    What type of character can we consider Willy to be? The audience theoretically should be attached to him, but he is not a positive person

    Why is Willy so obsessed with being liked from other persons?

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  3. 1) What do you think about the Woman? Is she a key to a new theme?
    2) Do you think Linda will discover about Willy's mistress?
    3) What do you think about the stylistic devices used by Arthur Miller in the first act?

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