“Storm” is taken from a new anthology of Hosain’s work, Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction, selected and edited by the writer Aamer Hussein and published this month by the feminist press Women Unlimited. The vocabulary is fill in the blank and the comprehension is multiple choice. The quiz was made to go along with 3rd Grade Ready Gen (2016 Edition) Unit 3 Module A. Emotions & Character Traits in Picture Books. This is a vocabulary quiz (5 questions) and a comprehension quiz (6 questions) for Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz. This small, glowing, many-sided story shows how, in a metaphor used by the story itself, fiction can hold up a mirror to the world that shows to it an aspect of which it may be oblivious. Upon completion of this lesson on Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz, students will be able to. But towards the end of the story, the savagery with which the protagonist mocks the aspirations of the younger woman who looks up to her suggests that she is a disillusioned observer of her world, but not an unbiased one. Mary Stolz Pat Cummings - While sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from Grandfathers boyhood, when Grandfather was afraid of thunderstorms. This ship was out of control (27:15-20), at the mercy of this fearsome storm. When things are out of our control, they are never out of God’s control, no matter how humanly impossible the situation.
It would seem, from the sarcasm with which the small society of the story is described, that the narrator sides with the protagonist. There are three practical truths that stem from this: A. Hosain explores one of fiction’s most resonant conundrums, the balance that we must all seek between innocence and experience, security and danger. The mysterious and elegant visitor is herself a storm in this environment as the days pass, her apparent freedom and disdain for convention become so provocative to the women around her that she comes to see the inclement weather of the night when she met them as “the friendlier storm”. In the story, a storm blows an outsider into a world stratified by both class and gender. And Ringo, the catThey were in the dark. But as we see in Hosain’s story “Storm”, in fiction some thoughts which appear “polished with courtesy” can actually carry a savagely satirical undertow. Thunder like mountains blowing up.Lightning licking the navy-blue sky.Rain streaming down the windows,babbling in the downspouts.And Grandfather. Some of these descriptions could be applied to Hosain’s own work.
Of an aged woman in that book, Laila, the novel’s narrator, remarks, “She spoke the sweet tongue of the true Lucknavi-delicate, flexible, rich in imagery, pointed with wit, polished with courtesy.” Her novel Sunlight On A Broken Column (1961), set in the feudal world of post-Independence Lucknow, is one of the greatest Indian novels in English. Our Original Resources 5 About the Authors 4 Author Interviews 3 Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 2 Awards & Distinctions 2 Explore Related Books by. If you have the flexibility (or predictable weather patterns to know you are expecting storms), this would be a great time to do this book.ABOUT THE STORY Attia Hosain (1913-1998) was widely admired by her contemporaries in both India and in England (where she lived after Partition) for the purity of her prose style and the clarity of her perception. Where I live on the Eastern Coast of the USA, September is usually filled with afternoon thunderstorms, and usually a hurricane or two will drop through and leave at least a large trail of rain and flooding during this season if nothing else. Thanks for looking around, and welcome to the site! If you are interested in more information, or to see the complete booklist, check out our main page, More FIAR – Inspired Literature-Based Lesson Plans, especially for homeschool and homeschool co-ops. Some stories also have similar themes with the books that go before/after them. Each lesson builds in part on the one before.
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