Nov 8-12 (Title Importance)

You first need to read chapter 2 (The Way) before you complete this blog.

Titles Sometimes Are Important

Very often titles don't mean much of anything. Lilo and Stitch, Titanic, David Copperfield, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Spiderman don't communicate a heck of a lot. But sometimes the title of a work of art is meant to convey information that the artist feels is important to understanding his work. Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sound and the Fury, Of Mice and Men, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Good Will Hunting and To Kill a Mockingbird are all intriguing titles that demand attention. What do these titles mean? What will the answers show us? Sometimes the title has some hidden depth. Always look at a title to try to see if there is going to be something significant about it.

Title: The Education of Little Tree and "The Way"

Questions:
What information was conveyed to you through the title of this novel?
What education? Who is going to learn something in this novel?
Are you sure you have thought of everyone?
Little Tree?
What did you think of before you found out about the events or characters of the novel?
What do these words (in the titles) indicate to you?
What happens to little tree?
What is the importance of education?
Thinking of the previous question about who was going to learn something in the novel, what is the importance of education to all of the people in your answer?
Are all of these people now linked in your mind?
If so, again, what happens to little tree?
What is the link?

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