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Section 1
Pre- Reading Quick Write:
What is success? How is it measured? How will you know you are successful? How
will others know?
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Section 2
Stop and GO Quick Writes:
Stop 1 What is value? How do you know something is worth something? How
important is money to you? What would you do for money?
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Stop 2 Describe the protagonist. Make a list of adjectives.
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Stop 3 The Hippocratic Oath. What is it? Consider all of Pines activities so far and
compare them to the oath he presumably took upon becoming a physician. What
does that say about him?
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Stop 4 What do these two questions mean to a surgeon and how does it apply to
the protagonist at this moment in time? How much shock-trauma can the patient
stand? How badly does the patient want to survive?
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Stop 5 Point out clues where he indicates that he had eaten his foot. How did his
use of heroin begin his steady downfall and is it significant to the story? What do
you think will happen to Richard Pine?
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Section 3 End of Story Discussion
What is your initial reaction to this story?
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What is failure? How does one know failure? Of their own? Of others?
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Was the protagonist successful? As a Doctor? In getting out of poverty? In surviving
for a time?
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