Questions for A Retrieved Reformation, The Three Century Woman and Charles Flashcards
What is the third person point of view?
Narrator who tells the story using pronouns he, she, it and they.
What is the third person omniscient point of view?
The narrator tells what the characters in the story are thinking and doing.
What is third person limited?
The narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
Predict
Reading strategy that involves using text clues to make a reasonable guess about what will happen next in a story
How long has Jimmy been in prison?
10 months
What is his prison job?
He worked at a prison shoe shop as a cobbler.
What crime did Jimmy commit, according to the prison warden?
He was a safecracker.
What does the warden tell Jimmy to do with his life?
To brace up and make a man of himself and live straight.
How many safecracking jobs does Jimmy carry out in the few months after his release?
3
How does the detective Ben Price know that Jimmy committed these crimes?
The style the safes were opened in Jimmy’s style of crime.
What is Ben Price determined to do?
To catch Valentine and take him to prison.
To whom is Jimmy giving his tools? Why?
Billy. For Annabel’s sake
Why does he want to go out West after he married Annabel?
So he can be away from any accusations and be way from Ben Price.
Why does he say he won’t ever do a dishonest thing again?
He wanted to live a straight life and wanted to stay that way.
Who calls after Jimmy? Why doesn’t he answer?
Ben Price. Because he doesn’t want to acknowledge that he was caught.
What does Jimmy say to Ben Price? What does he mean?
He says Hello Ben, you finally caught up with me. He means well you’ve caught me.
What is surprising about Price’s response?
He had wanted to catch Jimmy for so long and know he gave it up most likely because he knew jimmy had changed since he had witnessed that girls being saved by Jimmy.
How was Jimmy changed?
He wasn’t out for himself all the time any more.
What is the narrator’s great-grandmother’s claim to fame?
She has lived in three different centuries.
How does the narrator fell about visiting her great grandmother?
She hates it.
Where would the narrator rather be?
The mall
Why is great-grandma Brekenridge wearing lipstick?
So she can look all made up for the broadcasters and to be interviewed.
Is she nervous about the media interviewing her? What does she say when the reporter congratulates her on living for so long?
No, nothing to it.
Why does great-grandma tell Megan?
That is was scary that she was once her age.
