In the story A Christmas Memory.
1. In at least one paragraph, describe what you think the message is the author is trying to convey in the story. What specific details from the story make you believe this?
2. In at least a few sentences, describe how this message relates to your own life?
Your teacher wants to know what YOU think the author is trying to convey.
Your teacher certainly doesn't want to know about my life.
If you post your answers here, I'll be glad to check them.
It is a story. These were the questions. I don't know how it relates to me.
What is the author's message in this story? If you can tell us that, I may be able to help you relate it to your own life.
For #1 I believe basically it's asking about what you think the message the author is trying to tell the reader is..
For #2 try and see if maybe you have similar opinions on something the writer is saying or if you can relate to something the writer wrote.
But yes do what Ms.Sue says,
Oh, and for #1 give an example on a sentence you feel makes out the main message.
For #1 I put this but i don't know if it's right.
In the very beginning of the story Capote begins placing the reader in the kitchen of days long gone now. The reader has an image of a large farm house with a stove dominating the kitchen. Since kitchens in this era do not have a fireplace it is interesting to think back on a time when people would sit rocking and warming themselves by the fire.
"Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today the fireplace commenced its seasonal roar."
Buddy and his elderly cousin, Miss Sook, have been shelling pecans for fruitcake. They stop when they are done. They had worked well into the night.
"The kitchen is growing dark. Dusk turns the window into a mirror: our reflections mingle with the rising moon as we work by the fireside in the firelight. At last, when the moon is quite high, we toss the final hull into the fire and, with joined sighs, watch it catch flame."
During the baking process the kitchen is alive with actions, warmth, and smells of sweet goods.
"The black stove, stoked with coal and firewood, glows like a lighted pumpkin. Eggbeaters whirl, spoons spin round in bowls of butter and sugar, vanilla sweetens the air, ginger spices it; melting, nose-tingling odors saturate the kitchen, suffuse the house, drift out to the world on puffs of chimney smoke. In four days our work is done. Thirty-one cakes, dampened with whiskey, bask on windowsills and shelves."
Capote has taken the reader back in time to partake of the Christmas baking.
Absolutely not. Your teacher may fail you on this assignment for copying someone else's words without giving him/her credit!
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In your own words, tell what you think Capote is saying in this story?