Problem:
In a post below, I'd like you to come up with 10 different ideas, interpretations, or observations, but they need to be related to the following questions: What do individual word/phrases reveal about the characters in the story? What individual word/phrases reveal about the significance of the setting? Do you notice any symbols in this passage? If so, how are they significant and what do they mean? Does anything in the passage hint at later events in the story [foreshadowing]? What does the passage reveal about the theme/s of the story? I came on a Sunday, in the early afternoon, to help my father garden, something we always enjoyed together. We weeded and staked tomatoes and killed aphids while my mother and Rose were down at the lake. I didn't even go in the house until four, when I needed a glass of water... Someone had broken the piano bench into five neatly stacked pieces and placed them where the piano bench usually was. (76)