White Angel

Michael Cunningham

Initial discussion

Share your MVPs for this story. Explain why you chose this passage as your MVP.

Objects and Symbols

Identify quotes where Cunningham writes about doors, windows, planes, flying, and winged creatures.

Discuss the role these objects/symbols play in the story.

Culture and context

Share the lyrics from the songs you listened to for homework.

Discuss the roles music and historical time period play in the story.

Relationships

Describe the characters and their relationships.

Consider the relationship between: Carlton and Bobby The father and Carlton; the father

and Bobby The mother and Carlton; the mother

and Bobby The mother and father Carlton and his girlfriend

Character motivation

What does Carlton want?

What does Bobby, at age 9, want?

What does Bobby, the adult, want? Why does he write the story?

Themes

What themes or archetypes does Cunningham’s explore in this story?

Postmodernism

What makes this a postmodern text?

How does the postmodern condition or perspective connect to the themes of the story?