{"id":425,"date":"2014-10-19T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-10-19T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:58:18","slug":"reading-questions-for-tues-1021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/2014\/10\/19\/reading-questions-for-tues-1021\/","title":{"rendered":"reading questions for Tues. 10\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 10\/20 as an original post. Don\u2019t forget a creative title for your post.<\/p>\n<p>1. The conclusion of <em>LAS<\/em> is what Ruth Graham might call &#8220;uniformly satisfying.&#8221; All the loose ends are tied up; the single characters get married; the evil one dies. In this way the ending feels very traditional and &#8220;safe.&#8221; How do these &#8220;safe&#8221; plot elements affect your understanding of the &#8220;dangerous&#8221; plot elements from the rest of the book (e.g. the bigamy, attempted murder)? How do these very different kinds of events coexist in the same novel? Smoothly? Uncomfortably?<br \/>\n2. At what point did you lose your sympathy for Lady Audley? Pinpoint the exact paragraph where this occurred, and explain how your understanding of her character changed at this moment.<br \/>\n3. Is Lady Audley the protagonist of this novel, or is Robert Audley? Or, alternately, do you think they share the honor? What does it mean to be a protagonist, in your own words? How does a novel establish who is and who is not a protagonist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 10\/20 as an original post. Don\u2019t forget a creative title for your post. 1. The conclusion of LAS is what Ruth Graham might call &#8220;uniformly satisfying.&#8221; All the loose ends are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}