Students’ Questions about Literature Page 53

Toni Morrison wanted to write a novel that would deal with the issue of racism in America. She also wanted to write about the experience of being a black girl in America.

The Raven is a narrative poem which tells the story of a man who is visited by a raven. The poem is written in first person point of view.

The novel is set in the 1930s in the Salinas Valley in California.

John Steinbeck wrote of mice and men. He was born in 1902 and died in 1968.

Romanticism is a movement in the arts that began in the late 18th century and lasted until the middle of the 19th century. It emphasized emotion, imagination, and individualism.

In Greek mythology, Pallas was the goddess of wisdom and warfare and the daughter of Triton. In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the raven is a symbol of death and grief.

Lenore is the subject of the poem and the love of the speaker’s life. She is never seen or heard in the poem, but her presence is felt throughout.

The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins.

The book is about two friends, George and Lennie, who travel together and work on farms. George is small and smart, while Lennie is big and strong, but not very smart.

The raven was written by Edgar Allan Poe.