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Do you think Jim O'Conner is a good or bad character?
I believe Tennessee used Jim to mirror the Wingfield father and provoke the emotions that were felt.
Jim is described to be charming and good with words. He even admits he has to be smart; he's just good with people. Even manipulating them if he wants to.
When he had that monologue with Tom about how they are different, I though back to how Amanda said the one thing the father had was charm and noticed that the father and Jim were very similar.
What makes me question whether he's a good character or not is how he had gotten close to Laura, but still left her. And when he left, all this negativity he was the source of tore the family apart.

Come to think of it, if he's good with words, everything he said to Laura doesn't necessarily have to be true.

The English 5/6 Honors Class

As a whole, what was your favorite part of the English 5/6 Honors? What did you improve upon the most over the semester?

Now that the year is over, and we've been exposed to several different authors and their unique writing styles, which story/play would you say you enjoyed the most?

Summer Reading List

Are they're any books you plan on reading this summer, or would like to suggest for others to read?
After Stephanie's presentation today, I'm very interested in reading Alice in Wonderland.

Your favorite character??

Who was your favorite character in the Glass Menagerie and why? Can you relate anyone in the play to another character in a book or movie?

The Glass Menagerie

So far what do you guys believe the glass menagerie represent? What's it's symbolism?

Sanctity Christ

There is no mistake that Christmas is a character modeled after Christ. Faulkner presents many aspects of characterization to prove it, however there is something that I noticed from looking at Christmas to other Christ figures.

The famous thing with Christmas, and also Simon of Lord of the Flies (William Golding), is that they represent Jesus majorly through crucifixion, but not completely.
Both involve gruesome impalement, and the die for a purpose.

Though then that's the end of their rein. They die with hardly (if any) resolution to the problem they where created to address. The story of Jesus Christ is meant to show that universal belief that good will overcome evil.
However, with Christmas and Simon, it's a tragedy with little comfort towards what tortured them.

Why do you think Faulkner chose to use Christ, one of the world's most sacred figures, to be this troubled Christmas, and to die with a world that will never hear the complete story of his life?

Mrs. McEachern

With all the commotion occurring in Jefferson, it's easy to forget about the other characters that played a significant roll in past. We left Ms. McEachern alone without anyone to help her through the death of her husband or even to support her financially. In your opinion, what became of her? Do you think she was able to overcome her insecurities and start anew? Or did she fall into a downward spiral?

Did Christmas really kill Ms.Burden?

I feel like we didn't get to know how Ms.Burden really die we only inferred that Christmas killed her. What do you guys think really happened?

Bobbie's Effect on Christmas

Although we're already finished with the book, a part that stuck with me was the story of Bobbie and Christmas. While I was thinking about it a while back, a question came into mind.

If Bobbie hadn't rejected Christmas in chapter 9 and ran away with him, would Christmas have been happy and peaceful? Is it possible that if  he had ran away with Bobbie that he wouldn't have a hatred for women, and then meet Ms. Burden just to end up killing her? Ultimately, would there have been a happy ending for him and Bobbie?