1) How does the writer use descriptive techniques to create a compelling setting? 2) In your own words, what is Judson Webb doing at the beginning of the story?

3) What does Mabel incorrectly accuse Judson of?

4) Why exactly is Judson Webb looking at bourbon?

5) What exactly has caused Webb's anger?

6) What exactly is Judson's plan for revenge?

7) What are Mabel's reasons why Judson should not take the law into his own hands?

8) In your own words, summarize the events that take place after Mabel leaves the cabin.

9) What is the twist at the end and why is this ironic?

10) What evidence of foreshadowing is there in the story?

Story: Ruthless by William De Mille

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.

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