SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

  1. What is the effect of the abrupt beginning? Where else in the essay is abruptness made a means of producing literary effect?
  2. Point out excellent use of local color.
  3. Divide the essay into its principal parts.
  4. Show that the essay rises in power.
  5. How does the writer arouse the reader's sympathy for the characters?
  6. How does the writer awaken the reader's patriotism?
  7. What opinion of America do oppressed foreigners have? To what extent is their opinion well founded? To what extent is their opinion not well founded?
  8. What impressions does a sea-coast city make upon immigrants?
  9. What sort of people oppress the immigrants after arrival in America?
  10. To what false beliefs is such oppression due?
  11. What opportunities does America present?
  12. What spirit should meet the aspirations of immigrants?
  13. What will do most to make immigrants into good Americans?
  14. Explain how the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers may be taught so that they will apply to the present as well as to the past.
  15. How may we help immigrants to do work that will make them into good Americans?
  16. Show that the conclusion of the essay emphasizes its entire thought.
  17. Show what rhetorical methods are employed in the essay.