Name: ______Per. _____ Date: 5-4-17
READING CHECK ON PARAGRAPHS 41-51 IN “WHATEVER DOESN’T KILL ME”
Directions: Read the following questions on the story, “Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me,” and respond to each using
complete sentence. Use details from the story and clear explanations to support your responses.
1. In paragraphs 41-43, the narrator describes negative change within himself that happened as a result of him being attacked. Summarize in your own words the negative change that took place within the narrator. Explain WHY this change is negative.
A.The negative change that takes place in the narrator in paragraphs 41-43 is:______
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B.This change is negative because: (Describe how it could harm the narrator.)______
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2. In the 44th paragraph, the narrator describes how “…for the first time [he]realized that [he] could never get back to where he was before...[He] had lost it.” This suggests that before this realization, the narrator still believed that he could return back to the “normal” life he had before he was attacked. Explain how this belief that he could return back to his normal life caused many of the problems that he experienced. (For example: How did it cause him to become more depressed?)
A.The narrator’s belief that he could return back to his normal life caused many of the problems that he experienced because:______
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3. In the 46th paragraph, the narrator states that “It felt liberating,” once he realized that he could never get back to where he was before. Explain why realizing he could never get back to where he was before makes him feel so free? In what way does this make him free?
Once the narrator realizes that he could never get back to where he was before, he feels free because:______
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4. In the 48th paragraph, the narrator describes how he asked his girlfriend to marry him. Her reply, in the 49th paragraph, is “No! You need a little more work here.” Describe TWO things that the narrator still needed to work on before he was ready to get married.
A. One thing the narrator still needed to work on is:______
______B. The marriage will not work out if he doesn’t fix this because:______
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C. Another thing the narrator still needed to work on is:______
______D. The marriage will not work out if he doesn’t fix this because:______
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5. EXTRA-CREDIT:In paragraphs 25-27, the narrator described how much he hated the three responses that people gave him after he was attacked. However, by the end of his story, we realize that he actually proves that the three responses are TRUE. Explain how the narrator’s experiences prove that that the three responses are true.
A.The narrator proves that the first response, “Well, everything happens for a reason,” is true because: ______
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B. The narrator proves that the second response, “You’ve just go to get over it,” is true because: ______
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C. The narrator proves that the third response, “Whatever doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger,” is true because: ______
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