1) "Started by the expression of distress on his pale face she suddenly broke off. 'Why, whatever is the matter.' She asked. She was not accustomed to this kind of thing in visitors. (Not that there were many visitors anyhow: or reasons why there should be visitors.) 'You're not feeling ill, are you?'
Discuss the significance of the quote as well as the irony.
2) "Whet seemed an interminable stream of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room. Twin after twin, twin after twin, they came -- a nightmare. Their faces, their repeated face -- for there was only one between the lot of them -- puggishly stared, all nostrils and pale goggling eyes."
Discuss the significance of the quote as well as the irony.
3) What is the class at the center for dying to learn? How do you react to them making fun/jokes about the dying mother? Discuss John's reactions? The reactions of the head nurse to John?
4) "Obstinately the beautiful memories refused to rise; there was only a hateful ressurrection of jealousies and uglinesses and miseries."
Discuss the significance of this quote.
5) What are Linda's last words? How does this reflect her life or life in this society?
6) Linda, before she dies, is on soma holiday with Pope. What can be inferred in this idea?
7) When Linda dies how does the nurse condition/reward the children?
8) John pushes down a child at the end of this chapter. Is this a foreshadow for anything? Is it symbolic? What might it suggest?
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