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  • The Woods - do they symbolize anything in the story?
    The world in which Myop lives - Myop had “explored the woods behind the house many times"
  • Myop’s Name - does that symbolize anything?
    Myopia or shortsightedness -In the beginning of the story, young and naïve Myop thinks “the days have never been as beautiful as these”
  • time period in which Myop lives?
    Probably in the middle of the 20th century - still discrimination
  • What was the man Myop found wearing?
    overalls
  • her innocence is lost, as symbolized in?
    She laid down her flowers and "summer was over"
  • What do we know about Myop?
    10 years old - has a mother who is probably a sharecropper, goes into the woods often etc.
  • once she she comes upon the remains of the dead man - how does she reach?
    Not very afraid - perhaps surprised
  • "silence close and deep" - what is being described?
    Atmosphere in the forest
  • Is there an overall theme?
    loss of innocence
  • What inferences can you make about the man Myop finds in the woods?
    his teeth are all “cracked and broken” and his “head lay beside him,” we can infer that this man was violently beaten and perhaps killed
  • At what point in the story does the mood change?
    Goes further into the woods than befor
  • What might the flowers symbolize?
    Myop’s flowers may symbolize her naïve innocence.
  • What is a sharecropper’s cabin?
    landowners "allowed" their freed slaves to live on their property
  • What is the mood in the beginning of the story?
    joyful and innocent
  • what effect does this incident have on Myop?
    innocence is lost
  • What can be assumed by the way the man was dressed?
    That he was a sharecropper, possibly African American