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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Discussion Questions

The Death of Ivan Ilyich Discussion Questions. Learning Target. Reviewing chapters 1 - 8. You and your partner(s) will be assigned a question that you will be researching and answer for the class. You will need to discuss the question thoroughly and share your findings with the class. .

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Discussion Questions

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  1. The Death of Ivan IlyichDiscussion Questions

  2. Learning Target Reviewing chapters 1 - 8

  3. You and your partner(s) will be assigned a question that you will be researching and answer for the class. You will need to discuss the question thoroughly and share your findings with the class. Number off 1 – 9

  4. Think Pair Share Group 3: Why does Tolstoy start the novella with Ivan Ilyich’s funeral? Group 1: Who or what brings Ivan Ilyich comfort? Make a list. Which of these things would Tolstoy approve of? How do you know? Group 2: Does Tolstoy want his readers to like Ivan Ilyich? How can you tell? Do you like Ivan Ilyich at this point in the novel? Group 4: One of the themes of the book may be “Live a meaningful life and not a superficial one”. Is this theme important in today’s world? Why or why not? Group 5: How has Ivan Ilyich changed thus far in the story? What is he learning about life? Group 6: List Ivan Ilyich’s symptoms. List all of the diagnoses the doctors suggest. What do you believe is his true ailment?

  5. Think Pair Share Group 8: Ivan decorates the family’s new house thinking he’s doing a wonderful job—quite pleased with the result. But what does Tolstoy say is the actual effect? Can you compare this situation to any that exist today, even to the type of house one might prefer to own? Group 7: Reread the passage on page 6-7 beginning with “Peter Ivanovich sighed still more deeply. . .” and ending with “signifying his full conviction that it must indeed be so.” What is the TONE of this passage and to what effect? Group 9: Comment on this passage from page 38: “and Ivan Illych was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.” What is Ivan Ilyich thinking about? What does this mean?

  6. Be prepared to share.

  7. On your own and ready to share. Large class discussion

  8. Symbols What could Ivan’s pain be a symbol of in the story? What theme does this suggest?

  9. End of chapters 4 and 7 Ivan Ilyich’sfoiled bridge game, at the end of chapter 4, results in a sense that his life is poisoned and at the beginning of a disaster. He begins to be terrified of death. In chapter 7, “nothing did so much to poison [his] last days…as this falseness in himself and in those around him.” What is the falseness that poisons Ivan Ilyich? Is it the source of his illness? Is the falseness related to conformity? Or is it the dawning knowledge that Ivan Ilyich can neither relinquish nor live with his conformist tendencies?

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