Cranes

How does symbol of the hand or the cranes reveal the meaning of the story?

• So--what is the meaning of the story?
• How does the symbol function to help reveal the meaning?

In Cranes the meaning of the story is that couples that are happy together die together and they will take their lives together. I believe that the meaning of the story is revealed through the use of the cranes. Throughout the story the couple is sitting in their car watching these cranes that are strolling on the shoreline. Then the husband proceeds to tell his wife that cranes mate for life, and that they are going extinct because of that to which his wife tells him that she believes in mating for life. This causes the reader to believe that there is symbolism in the fact that this woman and her husband have been married for basically her whole life. Therefore, she is relating the cranes to their own love story because they both mate for life. Also, one other part that I deemed extremely symbolic was towards the end after the woman laid her head on her husbands shoulders, he said that the cranes "plunged upward" like the souls lifting upward after they die.

The Cranes

pg. 301-302

1. Committed suicide, I think that the story is about a woman who has something ailing her, and they are going to kill themselves.
1. Old couple
2. Kids (older)
3. Some accident happened
2. I believe that their story was plausible because there were many ways that they were relating to each other through their stories that they are talking about and they care about each other.
3. Cranes can be conventional symbols because they are relating to the cranes and the fact that they mate for life. 
4. They use humor as kind of a defense mechanism.
5. The story is like a poem because they use many things to represent other things that are in the story. There is no narration through the story, the whole story is told through dialouge

The Hand

pg. 282-284

1. The setting is in a bedroom of a married couple, it's an intimate setting, at the end they are eating a meal together, which symbolizes community.
2. She had just met him the month before, he has blonde hair, handsome, good at tennis and rowing and recently widowed.
3. She thinks it is strong and protective, when the electric jolt comes and the hand starts to spasm when she is laying next to him. She's starting to see a part of them that she hasn't really focused on before.
4. Makes you wonder about what has been going on before she met him, she is pretty naive and makes the reader feel like there is something beneath the surface of the story.
1. "Recently widowed"
1. Last Paragraph
2. Beginning a life of two sides of herself, to give in, marriage unity
3. Goes from living with her parents to living with a man whom she's only known for a month, his hand is as big as her head and he's very strong. stronger than many people that she's encountered before.
4. By her kissing the hand, she faces her fear head on and kisses it, also it shows that she is going to be more submissive.
5. The hand symbolizes control because she feels as if she should apologize to the hand, symbolizes the marriage itself because she is saying it's strong and beautiful how people come together, then at the end she sees that is is more strong and it is going to hold power over her throughout the relationship.

"Bartleby"

Questions on main point and meaning

1. He constantly seeks approval from them

2. Pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably fore lone  cheerfully industrious. Introvert, doesn't really talk to anyone.

4. Always distances himself, makes his friends mad because of it. He doesn't really talk to anyone because he prefers being alone.

5. Bartleby is able to get away with more from the other employees and other individuals exclude him because they think he is strange.

6. The narrator wrestles with his conscience while trying to decide what actions he should take against  Bartleby letting  Bartleby get away with more. HE pities Bartleby doesn't except his actions from any of the other employees.

7. Bartleby evokes the readers sympathy by anger and frustration. He says "he'd prefer not to" and by having to sleep in the office.

8. They change in order to accommodate by letting him have his way and doing his work when he was slacking. They never make him accountable for what he does.

Multiple choice

1. A

2. D
3. E
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. E
8. D
9. A
10. A

Killings & A Rose For Emily

Plot Diagram for "Killings"

Plot Diagram for "A Rose for Emily" but from the perspective of the townspeople

Plot Diagram for "A Rose for Emily" with the internal perspective of Emily