What is the mood in the beginning of the story?
joyful and innocent
At what point in the story does the mood change?
Goes further into the woods than befor
"silence close and deep" - what is being described?
Atmosphere in the forest
What is a sharecropper’s cabin?
landowners "allowed" their freed slaves to live on their property
What was the man Myop found wearing?
overalls
What can be assumed by the way the man was dressed?
That he was a sharecropper, possibly African American
What might the flowers symbolize?
Myop’s flowers may symbolize her naïve innocence.
once she she comes upon the remains of the dead man - how does she reach?
Not very afraid - perhaps surprised
her innocence is lost, as symbolized in?
She laid down her flowers and "summer was over"
The Woods - do they symbolize anything in the story?
The world in which Myop lives - Myop had “explored the woods behind the house many times"
Myop’s Name - does that symbolize anything?
Myopia or shortsightedness -In the beginning of the story, young and naïve Myop thinks “the days have never been as beautiful as these”
