The story "Just lather, thats all" 1.What is the central conflict of the story? Is it a dilemma? (Look up the parameters of dilemma if you need help with this distinction)
2.What considerations tempt the barber to kill Captain Torres? What considerations motivate him not to? How would you characterize his motivations (selfish, admirable, rationalizing, etc.)?
3.What is the difference between a revolutionary and a murderer?
4.In the story, the barber thinks of what people might say if he killed the captain: ‘he slit his throat while shaving him—a coward.’ Consider the significance of this remark.
5.Would the barber have been a ‘murderer’ or a ‘hero’ if he killed the captain?
6.There is a strong element of suspense in this story. Consider how delay, foreshadowing, and timing develop this suspense; find specific examples of each of these techniques.
7.What is the theme of this story? Could this theme be considered a ‘moral’ or didactic lesson? Would the theme of the story change if the barber had killed the captain?
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Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a.something someone else is writing about b.a fact c.something you have written about before