Students’ Questions about Literature Page 51

2,977 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks, including 343 firefighters and 61 police officers who responded to the call.

The lesson in “A Lesson Before Dying” is that we should all treat each other with respect and dignity, no matter what our circumstances are.

A lesson before dying is banned because it is a novel about a black man who is sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

Realism is often said to be a reaction to romanticism because it focuses on the gritty reality of life, rather than on idealized notions of love and beauty.

Toni Morrison wrote the novel the Bluest Eye. It was published in 1970.

Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild because he was inspired by the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who died while attempting to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer felt a personal connection to McCandless’s story and wanted to share it with the world.

Romanticism was the major art form in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It emphasized emotion, imagination, and individualism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins. It is a young adult, dystopian, science fiction novel.

The raven is a poem about a man who is grieving the loss of his love and is visited by a raven. The raven speaks only one word, “nevermore,” which the man interprets as a sign that he will never see his love again.