Michael Cunningham
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Share your MVPs for this story. Explain why
you chose this passage as your MVP.
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Identify quotes where Cunningham writes
about doors, windows, planes, flying, and
winged creatures.
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Discuss the role these objects/symbols play in
the story.
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Share the lyrics from the songs you listened
to for homework.
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Discuss the roles music and historical time
period play in the story.
Describe the characters and their relationships.
Consider the relationship between:
 Carlton and Bobby
 The father and Carlton; the father and Bobby
 The mother and Carlton; the mother and
Bobby
 The mother and father
 Carlton and his girlfriend
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What does Carlton want?
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What does Bobby, at age 9, want?
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What does Bobby, the adult, want? Why does
he write the story?
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What themes or archetypes does
Cunningham’s explore in this story?
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What makes this a postmodern text?
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How does the postmodern condition or
perspective connect to the themes of the
story?