ASSIGNMENT 4

1. It was my six grade year when I thought that having a boyfriend was cool. My boyfriend, Jessie, and I kicked off on a good note. Towards the end of six grade year, I felt betrayed because he began to lose our friendship and we never spoke again.


2.Jilted means a desertion or betrayal .
Yes, I have be jilted before.


In the story Granny Weatherall lies in bed as a doctor examines her. Granny's mind readily moves from present to past and back again. The memory continues to repeat in Granny's head which she is unable to shake an event that occurred sixty years ago.


3. "A whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it , crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully and orderly rows. Granny knew hell when she saw hell, she prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell. The thought of him was a smokey cloud from hell that moved and crept into her head."

4.Granny response to the imminence of death was that she was not thinking about it. Before her death, she was naming things she wanted to do for her children.


5.The theme of the story "being betrayed by the one you love will hurt you in a long run".