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Journey

Journey. Discussion ?’s Joyce Carol Oates. DICUSSION ?’S. 1 The journey in the story is a metaphor for life. How would you describe the journey that represents your life?. DICUSSION ?’S.

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Journey

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  1. Journey Discussion ?’s Joyce Carol Oates

  2. DICUSSION ?’S 1 • The journey in the story is a metaphor for life. How would you describe the journey that represents your life?

  3. DICUSSION ?’S • life’s journey is exciting and full of experiences although we usually tend to be more pessimistic we should try to push for a happy life

  4. DICUSSION ?’S 2 • If you had the day to begin again, how would your choices compare with the narrator's ?

  5. DICUSSION ?’S • If I were to begin any day over I would change anything that led me the wrong way

  6. DICUSSION ?’S 3 • Do you think that it is possible to map out your life? Is it desirable? Why or why not?

  7. Discussion ?’s • It is possible to map out your life but only to a certain extent, life should be random. The fact that life would get boring if you always knew what was coming up next makes it unappealing

  8. Discussion ?’s 4 • (a)-Where does your journey begin? • (b)-What is your destination?

  9. Discussion ?’s • Everyone’s journey begins when they are born and their destination is a happy place where no matter what life puts us to we know we will be alright

  10. Discussion ?’s 5 • (a)-Why do you turn off the highway? • (b)-Why do you turn onto an unpaved road? • (c)-Why do you decide “to make the rest of your journey on foot”?

  11. Discussion ?’s • I decide to turn off the highway because I know that If I follow the nice highway I will never experience anything other than that • I turn onto an unpaved road because it is the road less traveled and that idea is very appealing because not everyone can say “yeah I’ve been down that road” • I decide to make the rest of my journey on foot because I feel my “foot numb from the constant pressure on the acceleration”(p.861)

  12. Discussion ?’s 6 • (a)-Where do you end up by evening? • (b)-What do you suddenly remember?

  13. Discussion ?’s • By evening I am still in the wilderness and I am starting to really see what I am doing • I suddenly remember that I do not have my handy dandy map

  14. Discussion ?’s 7 • What do you conclude at the end of the day?

  15. Discussion ?’s • I conclude that even though I’m tired and cold this has been a triumph and If I went back I wouldn’t change it

  16. Discussion ?’s 8 • (a)-Into what four stages can your journey be divided? • (b)-How does the appearance of the road or path you follow change from stage to stage? • (c)- How does the appearance of the surrounding landscape change from stage to stage? • (d)-What other changes occur as you pass from stage to stage?

  17. (a)- The four stages are: 1-when I am on the highway 2-when I turn down the dirt road 3-when I am navigating trough the rough terrain 4- when I find the highway (b)-The road starts smooth and gets rougher and rougher as I go along (c)-As the stages change I see the landscape as something I have been missing out on (d)-Also as I go from stage to stage I begin to change and I begin to see the benefits what I am doing Discussion ?’s

  18. Discussion ?’s 9 • What is the significance of the fact that none of the other places in the story are named?

  19. Discussion ?’s The significance is that you cannot see where your not looking so if you are in the forest you cant see the desert

  20. Discussion ?’s 10 • In the beginning of the story, the narrators comments that “you are a lover of maps”. • (a)-How does this attitude change during the course of the story? • (b)-What significance of the fact that in the end you remember the map “as a blank sheet of paper”?

  21. Discussion ?’s The narrator says I am a lover of maps and that means that I like to know where I am and where I am going I remember the map as a blank sheet of paper and I like that because now for the first time I am winging it and It worked out

  22. Discussion ?’s 11 • What is the triumph felt at the end of the story?

  23. Discussion ?’s The triumph at the end of the story is making it all the way trough the forest and being able to come out on top

  24. Discussion ?’s 12 • Explain how this story relates to the following lines from Robert Frost’s Poem “The road not taken”: “two roads diverge in the wood, and I--/ I took the road less traveled by,/ and that has made all the difference.

  25. Discussion ?’s This story relates to Robert Frost’s lines “ road not taken” in that the story is about me experiencing the road less traveled and enjoying the scenery

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