Follow Up Questions (Target: Critical Thinking Skills)
- Which of the four episodes of the story do you like best? Worst? Explain why to the class. Show-and-Tell if you want.
- The translator adds sound effects to the tales. Do you find this effective or distracting? Or something else?
- Writer John D. McDonald lived in Sarasota and Delray Beach was a haunt for his famous character, Travis McGee, a beach bum detective who lived on his boat there, the Busted Flush. Do you think McGee would have caught Mohammed Atta and his pals who lived in luxury at Delray Beach? Explain first as a conspiracy theorist. Then alter your ego and explain from a conspiracy fearist point of view. It's a moot point.
- It's a cookbook! Can you explain the power dynamic expressed here?
- What do you think happened to the pet goat when he was released from jail on parole 15 years later? (Choose as many as applies):
The goat broke baaad in prison and became a recidivist.
He didn't care if he could never vote in elections again. He'd lost his faith in the system.
He read Cape Fear in jail and later went looking for the guy and the girl to kidnap their baby as payback for his traumas. He read some Nietzsche, too.
Let's just say his horns never grew back.
He becomes a check-out boy at the local Winn-Dixie and puts up with guff from old biddies who read National Enquirer and buy cat food even after their pet cat has died.
All the be-bops, and his later Maynard G. Krebs ways, lead him to take up saxophone and put on shades and enjoy a late stage following on the local Palm Beach blues circuit. Mara-a-Lago often invites him back.
He meets a fetching goat and they have kids and move to Baja.
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