...idea,mainidea,backgroundanswers,background,literally work and background .? "Mr. Know-All" by W. Somerset Maugham
1. How does the title of this story set the tone for what you’re about to read?
2. Give a good working definition of the term setting.
3. What is the setting of this story? Is it important to the story? Why?
4. What sort of person do you think of when somebody is called a "know-all" ?
5. What is our narrator’s opinion of Max Kelada?
6. What sort of things does Max Kelada do that gets him labelled as "Mr. Know-All"?
7. Why didn’t Mrs. Ramsay want Mr. Kelada to look at her pearls?
8. Did your opinion of Max Kelada change by the end of the story? How?
9. What do you think happened by the end of the story, from the dinner party to the end of the tale?
10. What is the theme, or message in this story?
11. What literary devices are used in this story? Provide examples to support your answers.
1. Where does the story take place? In what year?
2. What does the opening paragraph tell us about the speaker and his attitude?
3. In the second paragraph the speaker says that he doesn't like Mr. Kelada. What doesn't he like about him?
4. When Mr. Kelada introduces himself to the narrator, the narrator says that he "asked if he was right in thinking my name was so and so." Why doesn't the narrator bother to tell us his own name?
5. In the conversation that follows this introduction, the narrator is surprised to find out that Mr. Kelada is English. Why is he so surprised? Why does the writer describe his question as being asked "rather tactlessly"?
6. What impression is created by Mr. Kelada's behavior at this first meeting?
7. Where does the narrator suspect that Mr. Kelada was born? How do you know?
1. What is special about Mrs. Ramsay?
2. What kind of man is Mr. Ramsay?
3. Write down at least 3 things that Mr. Kelada did that annoyed the narrator.
4. Which of those could be considered cultural difference, and which were just a part of his personality that clashed with that of the narrator's?
5. Describe Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. How do you think that author feels about them? (Find quotations to support your answer.)
6. Why does the narrator call Mr. Kelada :"The best hated man on the ship?
# Using the flow chart, fill in what happens from the point when Kelada sees Mrs. Ramsay's chain of pearls, to the point when he says he is mistaken.
# Why does Mrs. Ramsay "retire with a headache"?
# In the last paragraph the narrator says, "At that moment I did not entirely dislike Mr. Kelada". Has the narrator changed at all during the story? What are your feelings towards Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Kelada and the narrator by the end of the story?
# Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell us about him?
# What is Mrs. Ramsay's reaction at the end of the story? Why is the name on the envelope written in "block letters"? How does this make you react to Mrs. Ramsay?
What do cultured and real pearls symbolize in the story?
# Look for and list the cultural differences between the narrator, Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Kelada.
# Discuss cultural differences between you, as Israelis, and those seen in the characters. With whom do you feel closest? Why?
# Why is the story told in the first person? What effect does it have on us, the readers?
4. retire - (EMT p. 180, ECB p. 41)
5. Pretend that you are Mr. Kelada, and tell the story to your friend in Japan (from your - Mr. Kelada's - point of view).
6. Answer the following questions orally:
a. Why is the story told in the first person, and why aren't we told the narrator's name?
b. Why did the narrator decide that he disliked Mr. Kelada even before he met him? What does this tell you about him? Do you think the writer was trying to say something about the British, in general?
7. Describe the 3 different stereotypes that the writer shows in this story.
8. Mr. Kelada / Mrs. Ramsay
Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell about him? What does Mrs. Ramsay do in return? What do you think about her reactio
9. Pretend that you are Mr. Kelada, and tell the story to your friend in Japan (from your - Mr. Kelada's - point of view).
2. Answer the following questions orally: One. Why is the story told in the first person, and why aren't we told the narrator's name? Two. Why did the narrator decide that he disliked Mr. Kelada even before he met him? What does this tell you about him? Do you think the writer was trying to say something about the British, in general?
3. Describe the 3 different stereotypes that the writer shows in this story.
4. Mr. Kelada / Mrs. Ramsay Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell about him? What does Mrs. Ramsay do in return? What do you think about her reaction?
1. Look for and list the cultural differences between the narrator, Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Kelada.
2. Discuss cultural differences between you, as I
1. How does the title of this story set the tone for what you’re about to read?
2. Give a good working definition of the term setting.
3. What is the setting of this story? Is it important to the story? Why?
4. What sort of person do you think of when somebody is called a "know-all" ?
5. What is our narrator’s opinion of Max Kelada?
6. What sort of things does Max Kelada do that gets him labelled as "Mr. Know-All"?
7. Why didn’t Mrs. Ramsay want Mr. Kelada to look at her pearls?
8. Did your opinion of Max Kelada change by the end of the story? How?
9. What do you think happened by the end of the story, from the dinner party to the end of the tale?
10. What is the theme, or message in this story?
11. What literary devices are used in this story? Provide examples to support your answers.
1. Where does the story take place? In what year?
2. What does the opening paragraph tell us about the speaker and his attitude?
3. In the second paragraph the speaker says that he doesn't like Mr. Kelada. What doesn't he like about him?
4. When Mr. Kelada introduces himself to the narrator, the narrator says that he "asked if he was right in thinking my name was so and so." Why doesn't the narrator bother to tell us his own name?
5. In the conversation that follows this introduction, the narrator is surprised to find out that Mr. Kelada is English. Why is he so surprised? Why does the writer describe his question as being asked "rather tactlessly"?
6. What impression is created by Mr. Kelada's behavior at this first meeting?
7. Where does the narrator suspect that Mr. Kelada was born? How do you know?
1. What is special about Mrs. Ramsay?
2. What kind of man is Mr. Ramsay?
3. Write down at least 3 things that Mr. Kelada did that annoyed the narrator.
4. Which of those could be considered cultural difference, and which were just a part of his personality that clashed with that of the narrator's?
5. Describe Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. How do you think that author feels about them? (Find quotations to support your answer.)
6. Why does the narrator call Mr. Kelada :"The best hated man on the ship?
# Using the flow chart, fill in what happens from the point when Kelada sees Mrs. Ramsay's chain of pearls, to the point when he says he is mistaken.
# Why does Mrs. Ramsay "retire with a headache"?
# In the last paragraph the narrator says, "At that moment I did not entirely dislike Mr. Kelada". Has the narrator changed at all during the story? What are your feelings towards Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Kelada and the narrator by the end of the story?
# Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell us about him?
# What is Mrs. Ramsay's reaction at the end of the story? Why is the name on the envelope written in "block letters"? How does this make you react to Mrs. Ramsay?
What do cultured and real pearls symbolize in the story?
# Look for and list the cultural differences between the narrator, Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Kelada.
# Discuss cultural differences between you, as Israelis, and those seen in the characters. With whom do you feel closest? Why?
# Why is the story told in the first person? What effect does it have on us, the readers?
4. retire - (EMT p. 180, ECB p. 41)
5. Pretend that you are Mr. Kelada, and tell the story to your friend in Japan (from your - Mr. Kelada's - point of view).
6. Answer the following questions orally:
a. Why is the story told in the first person, and why aren't we told the narrator's name?
b. Why did the narrator decide that he disliked Mr. Kelada even before he met him? What does this tell you about him? Do you think the writer was trying to say something about the British, in general?
7. Describe the 3 different stereotypes that the writer shows in this story.
8. Mr. Kelada / Mrs. Ramsay
Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell about him? What does Mrs. Ramsay do in return? What do you think about her reactio
9. Pretend that you are Mr. Kelada, and tell the story to your friend in Japan (from your - Mr. Kelada's - point of view).
2. Answer the following questions orally: One. Why is the story told in the first person, and why aren't we told the narrator's name? Two. Why did the narrator decide that he disliked Mr. Kelada even before he met him? What does this tell you about him? Do you think the writer was trying to say something about the British, in general?
3. Describe the 3 different stereotypes that the writer shows in this story.
4. Mr. Kelada / Mrs. Ramsay Why did Mr. Kelada decide to protect Mrs. Ramsay? What does this tell about him? What does Mrs. Ramsay do in return? What do you think about her reaction?
1. Look for and list the cultural differences between the narrator, Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Kelada.
2. Discuss cultural differences between you, as I