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IN YOUR GROUP, DISCUSS EACH OF THESE QUESTIONS.

1. List three important components of Rips personality you know by p. 578.

2. Who is Knickerbocker? Who is John Irving? Whats the point-of-view here?

3. List 6 clues from pp 580-582 that tell you that time has passed? How does this create irony?

4.Name several ways in which Rips town has changed?

5. Mark the Beginning, Middle and End.

Whom does Rip meet in the forest, and how is that the precipitating action that ends the
Exposition?