T: “War”

A: Luigi Pirandello
N: Italian
G: short story
Glencoe Literature (purple text)
pages 958-962
 “War” Vocabulary
• Record the vocabulary and definitions from
page 958 in your TANG.
– 1) Discrimination- (noun) making a difference in treatment or
favor on some basis other than individual merit
– 2) Console- (verb) to alleviate a person’s grief, sense of loss,
or trouble; to comfort
– 3) pettiness (noun) a focus on unimportant or small-minded
details
– 4) Disillusion (noun) the state of being freed from misleading
images or naïve trust
– 5) contract (verb) to draw together; to wrinkle up
– 6) distorted (adj.) twisted out of a normal or original shape or
condition
 Journal Entry
Write a response to the following topic. Make
sure you indent and have a complete paragraph
(four to six sentences minimum).

Why do people sometimes deceive

themselves about their abilities, beliefs, or
feelings?
(page 958)
Record the following literary terms that you don’t
have in your Literary Terms Section:

Realism:
* Any accurate and detailed description in a literary
work
Symbol:
• Using an object or repetitive theme to represent a larger idea
• (An object that stands for something else)
Foreshadowing:
• The subtle revealing of clues that hint to events that will
occur later in the story
Tone:
Read “War” and complete the following activities:
• Give the physical description of the husband and
wife and their beliefs.
• Give the physical description of the fat man and
his beliefs.
• Why does the fat man break down at the end of
the story?
• What might the wife’s coat symbolize?
• What hints in the story suggest the fat man does
not truly feel what he is claiming?
• Does the tone of the work change? Explain.
• Complete the Personal Writing assignment on
page 963.