1. Why would starving himself possibly make him happy?
2. How does the part where he talks about starving himself for 40 days relate to the bible?
3. Why in the world would could he be "fanatically devoted to fasting"?
4. Could this short story be trying to say something about how animal like society is if the hunger artist were to represent society?
5. What changes did u make about what you thought the symbols were once the hunger artist said his very last line?
6. What do the butchers represent?
The hunger artist used to be a very important part of society once. However now-a-days his popularity has started to decline. The hunger artist used to be able to sit around in his cage with tons of people gwaking at him. All sorts of people would come to watch the hunger artist; children, adults, even butchers would come to make sure that during the wee hours of the night the hunger artist did not eat. Even though the hunger artist would be obviously fasting people would still have their suspisions. The hunger artist foudn it the easiest thign in the world to fast. It was easy for him because he knew how to make it easy.
the Impresario sets the maximum amount of days to 40, he would never let the hunger artist go past that. Even after 40 days the people would probably start to loose interst in the hunger artist anyways, although different towns could be spoken for. On that fortieth day the cage door would be opened and the hunger artist would be removed by two young women. Outside the cage woudl be thousands of people; Usually a band and a couple doctors were the most specific. The women would take him to a table set with a hospital meal but when he would finally get to the table he would not feel liek actually eating.
After the many years that the hunger artist had done this it had grown old with the public forcing him to find another job. The hunger artist did not want another job however so he joined the circus where he would sit outside by the animals where people would walk by and maybe just glance at him. Every now and then a family would stop and teh father woould explain teh purpose of the hunger artsist to teh children however teh children still did not understand.
So many days had passed and the hunger artist had become unnoticed by all. Until one day the manager of teh circus saw teh cage and had to take it away teh hunger artist explained to him that he owuld ahve eaten if there just had been a food that he had liked. Making this his final words, the circusreplaced him by a rambucious panther.
2. How does the part where he talks about starving himself for 40 days relate to the bible?
3. Why in the world would could he be "fanatically devoted to fasting"?
4. Could this short story be trying to say something about how animal like society is if the hunger artist were to represent society?
5. What changes did u make about what you thought the symbols were once the hunger artist said his very last line?
6. What do the butchers represent?
The hunger artist used to be a very important part of society once. However now-a-days his popularity has started to decline. The hunger artist used to be able to sit around in his cage with tons of people gwaking at him. All sorts of people would come to watch the hunger artist; children, adults, even butchers would come to make sure that during the wee hours of the night the hunger artist did not eat. Even though the hunger artist would be obviously fasting people would still have their suspisions. The hunger artist foudn it the easiest thign in the world to fast. It was easy for him because he knew how to make it easy.
the Impresario sets the maximum amount of days to 40, he would never let the hunger artist go past that. Even after 40 days the people would probably start to loose interst in the hunger artist anyways, although different towns could be spoken for. On that fortieth day the cage door would be opened and the hunger artist would be removed by two young women. Outside the cage woudl be thousands of people; Usually a band and a couple doctors were the most specific. The women would take him to a table set with a hospital meal but when he would finally get to the table he would not feel liek actually eating.
After the many years that the hunger artist had done this it had grown old with the public forcing him to find another job. The hunger artist did not want another job however so he joined the circus where he would sit outside by the animals where people would walk by and maybe just glance at him. Every now and then a family would stop and teh father woould explain teh purpose of the hunger artsist to teh children however teh children still did not understand.
So many days had passed and the hunger artist had become unnoticed by all. Until one day the manager of teh circus saw teh cage and had to take it away teh hunger artist explained to him that he owuld ahve eaten if there just had been a food that he had liked. Making this his final words, the circusreplaced him by a rambucious panther.
1 comment:
miranda-
interesting piece here. would have liked to hear more out of you in class! also, use the spell-check function in blogger.
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