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UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN

SAN PEDRO SULA REGIONAL CAMPUS


LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Introduction to Literature
Professor: Valladares Navas Yuri, M.A.
Student Kelvin Reyes

Assignment 6: Week 7 (November 9 to November15)

Task 1. Read the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and answer the following:

1. In our own lives we constantly need to make decisions about everything; The Road Not
Taken deals with that issue: for instance, for an old person, it means to regret or not
about the way taken throughout a lifetime. What does the title and the content on this
poem mean for you?
Regarding the title I think that anyone who had taken it is sure that the loss
of something good will be kept in mind by not choosing their choice, about
the content is a test since at first glance the two options are equal but the
truth is oneself makes the difference throughout our life.

2. Do you usually hesitate when you have two choices you considered are both good for
you?
Yes, because although both are good, you always have to consider which is
the best.

3. According to the speaker, he took the road less traveled and that made the difference
Why do you think the speaker say that?
Because he is at the end of his days and opts for repentance and the fear of
God that makes a big difference.

4. Check the rhyme schemed pattern by using lowercase letters (ab, cd, ef, gh, ij, etc.).

The Road Not Taken


Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a


And sorry I could not travel both b
And be one traveler, long I stood a
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; b

Then took the other, as just as fair, c


And having perhaps the better claim, d
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; c
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, d
And both that morning equally lay e
In leaves no step had trodden black. f
Oh, I kept the first for another day! g
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, g
I doubted if I should ever come back. f

I shall be telling this with a sigh h


Somewhere ages and ages hence: i
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— e
I took the one less traveled by, h
And that has made all the difference. i

Task 2. Read the Story “The Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce.

1. Research about the Civil War in the US, setting of the present story.
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of
simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery,
states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in
1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate
States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the
States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in
1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on
American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions
more injured and much of the South left in ruin.

2. Who is the man sleeping at the beginning of the story?


He is a young Virginian sentinel named Carter Druse.

3. What condition is vital to the events of the story when Carter Druse tell his father he
will join the union?
He betrays his state by joining the union fight and later inevitably has to
kill a Confederate spy horseman who is his father.

4. Who is the horseman in the sky?


He is a Confederate spy and at the same time the father of young soldier Carter
Druse.

5. Do you think the protagonist feels any remorse about what happened?
Not at all since he had some differences with his father in addition to his
blow to his head which had a severe brain trauma.

6. What is the setting?


The mountainous region of western Virginia, United States of America.
One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861.

7. What is the point of view?


The point of view is given in the third person, because the narrator is out of
the story.
8. What is the irony?
The irony is situational as something completely different than expected
happens, because in the end Carter Druse kills his own father.

Task 3. Read the story “All the Years of her Life” by Morley Callaghan and do the following
exercises:

1. Why does Mr. Carr stop Alfred at the end of the work day?
Because young Alfred had stolen some items from the store carrying them
in his pockets.

2. What comments in the story tell us that Alfred is used to be in problems?


I tell you, you have been doing this for a long time.
This had happened many times since he left school.
At such times, he always spoke in a loud voice as he did tonight.
I've been spending money, I believe.

3. What attitude toward Mr. Car reveal about Alfred’s personality?


Alfred tried to look big, but deep down he was like a child. He hoped
someone at home would come quickly to save him in the irresponsible way
as he acted stealing some utensils from the store.

4. What words in Alfred´s speech reveal that he is a young boy?


Alfred thought his mother would rush in, her eyes blazing with anger. Maybe she
would be crying and push him away when he tried to explain it to her. She would
make him feel so small. However, I wanted her to come quickly before Mr. Carr
called a police officer, she also added that sometimes I think that good advice is best
for a child at certain times in his life.

5. What does the expression “A little good advice is the best for a boy” mean?
I think that sometimes it is not necessary to take too drastic measures towards a
child and it is better to give good advice and on time.

6. What actions and speech prove that Ms. Higgins is a great diplomat?
Alfred's mother demonstrated her education and tranquility when facing
her son's situation, making Mr. Carr think about the great difference
between her and her son and making him feel uncomfortable and in the
end everything was in good order.

7. What clues in the story tell us that Alfred is a black sheep in the family?
His abandonment of his education, taking things that did not belong to him
and the main problems that he was causing his mother emotionally to a
point of deterioration of his health.

8. What lesson, do you think Alfred learned from this event?


In the end, he understood the damage he was doing to his mother and
realized that it was time to change to be a good son.

9. What family condition do you think caused Alfred Attitude?


The lack of communication and attention towards him and Alfred's
immaturity led him to make these mistakes that are sometimes solved with
a little more attention towards our children, sometimes it is not good to give
too much freedom and let them do things to pleasure, a little more
communication and attention to our children and good advice in time will
make the difference.

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