Dinner Party Dialogue

First, read Ginny Wiehardt’s piece on writing dialogue.

Now, imagine you are at a fancy dinner.  The guests in attendance are the characters from our fiction unit.  Write a story/dialogue piece where the characters speak to each other.  You decide what they say but to achieve credit for this assignment they must say something relevant to their actions in the story.  For example, the very old man with enormous wings might say, “I hate it when the butter gets caught in my wings, it’s hard to fly when that happens.”  Your post should include conversation from each of the characters listed below and be a total of 400 words.

Montressor

Fortunato

Rainsford

Ivan

Whitney

Zaroff

Mr. Summers

Mrs. Hutchinson

Tessie Hutchinson

Toto

Joel

Their Parents

Their Classmates

Bill

The Man

The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Following a Character

This is a three part post.

First, select a character from either "The Lottery" or
"Love of Life" and follow their progression through the story.  You will comment on how their character changes from the beginning to the middle to the end.

Second, choose a line from either story and explain why that line is important to the story.

Finally, write about a personal connection you made with either text.  This whole response should be at least 350 words.

An Old Man With Enormous Wings?

After reading the two short stories--A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and Light is Like Water, make up a short story of your own.  Your story should borrow from the school of Magical-Realism in that you will bring together something completely normal and everyday with something surreal/magical and far-out.  Your post should be at least 300 words long.