WHY READ? GUUUUUH.

It’s boring and I hate it?!

• Escape
• Learn (neuroplasticity)
• Learn (life and crap)
• Empathize

INFERENCE

Identify and explain a conclusion based on complexity and insight drawn from the text

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What’s going on with a story?

What does a story mean?

HAPPINESS

Read… then talk

Success Criteria:

Identify and explain a conclusion based on complexity and insight drawn from the text.

NOT AN INFERENCE”:This is a story about waffles/hunting.

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NOT AN INFERENCE WITH COMPLEXITY: This is a story about the challenges of growing up.

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GOOD INFERENCE WITH COMPLEXITY AND INSIGHT: The narrator omits names for his characters because he may be trying to distance himself from his former bad habits or painful memories, even memories not explicitly stated in this story, highlighting the struggles of young relationships.

INSIGHTS

• What do you all notice?

Well, that’s weird

• 3rd person, no names�
• Frame (Milan, Italy to Dentist office in America to waffles to Milan, Italy)

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• Openly talks about wife’s sisters? Woah.

Making Inferences

• Question: Interpret why this story is told in third person despite the speaker recounting a story to his daughter about himself.

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• Try to write the best explanation you can. Use insightful evidence and reference the text in your response to address the complexity of this seemingly simple story.

INFERENCE EXAMPLE

• The narrator may be trying to distance himself from his former bad habits or painful memories, even memories not explicitly stated in this story. Instead of telling about his strained, young, and eventually failed relationship, the father tells the story simply about “a boy”which implies the youth of the character. This could be the narrator disassociating with some of the later painful memories. While the narrator’s story of he and his wife’s disagreement about a hunting trip ends in love and affection, the marriage fails (highlighted by the daughter’s question and the fact the father and daughter are alone at Christmas). He regrets the way the relationship changed after this fight and is torn between remembering the connection they once shared (“He stays by the window, remembering… They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come”), and the pain of breaking apart. Calling himself the boy, instead of “I”, allows this young version of himself to be someone else, not him today.

By Daisy hoping her child will be a beautiful fool. Tells me that Daisy doesn't care about how her daughter does in life as long as she's able to be pretty and a fool for a guy. This suggests that maybe Daisy struggles with her self image and possibly her beliefs of a female role.

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Why?

Daisy hopes her daughter will be a fool because she won't realize how bad it is to be a woman in this time. Daisy is pessimistic, and she says that she's been everywhere and seen everything. She’s conscious about the world and doesn’t want her daughter to be, so she can be happy.

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Pretty dumb daughters

When Daisy hopes her child is a "beautiful fool", she is wanting her child to be unaware of all of the horrors of the world, and instead focus on the simple silly things. This shows that Daisy has been exposed to many of the terrible truths and unfortunate ways of the world by being smart and educated, and she doesn't want her kid to grow through with that. Whenever Tom is near, she acts very oblivious and pretends to be a completely superficial bombshell, but the second that he's gone, she instantly opens up with Nick about her troubles. I infer that Daisy also wishes that she was dumb, so that that way she wouldn't have to experience all of the emotional pain and worry from being aware of the harsh truths of the world.

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THE INTRIGUE!

CHARACTERS!