Eng 10 Short Story Questions

Questions for "The Brass Teapot"

1.  List the following details of this story:

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Conflict
• Climax
• Point of View

2.  The final line of the story “We could buy our way to Paradise” is an example of dramatic irony as the reader knows something that the characters do not.  Explain the irony of that statement.

3.  Discuss how these two characters, Alice and John, change throughout the story.  

4.  Can you think of anything in our society that would drive someone to act like John and Alice do in this story?  What might the teapot symbolize in that situation?

5.  Go back and read the start of the story about how they acquire the teapot.  What do you know now that you have finished the story that was not obvious before?