Monday, March 12, 2012

10 Questions on "Test" from Running After The Antelope by Scott Carrier.

1. Why does Carrier use the grotesque to convey that the patients and his self have possibly mental disabilities?

2.How does Carrier use irony to show that he, himself, may harbor some mental instabilities?

3. How does the use of imagery help convince the reader that the patient has some case of a mental disability?

4. What does the pizza symbolize? how is it significant?

5.What is the significance of the woman having a sexual relation with archangel Gabriel and Michael?

6. Why was the prostitute seeing zombies and and smelling dead boys behind the hospital? is this a bigger connection to her mental illness, possibly death itself?

7. What is the significance of Carrier's wife and kids leaving him?

8. Do all of the patients cases have a symbolic link to Carrier's own life?

9. What is the man trying to see through his crystal? could this be his coping mechanism to his mental disabilities?

10. Why does Carrier feel that the Navajo teen is trying to torture him?

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