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    The document provides 10 guide questions to analyze the short story "Prelude". The questions probe the meaning and significance of the title, characters' feelings and relationships, clues about a death mentioned in the story, the importance of dried purple leaves found in the story, who may have killed the man, multiple meanings of heat at the story's end, the irony of the widow being married to a judge, and whether justice was served by the story's events.

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    The document provides 10 guide questions to analyze the short story "Prelude". The questions probe the meaning and significance of the title, characters' feelings and relationships, clues about a death mentioned in the story, the importance of dried purple leaves found in the story, who may have killed the man, multiple meanings of heat at the story's end, the irony of the widow being married to a judge, and whether justice was served by the story's events.

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    Guide Questions PRELUDES

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    Biancatot Daray
    The document provides 10 guide questions to analyze the short story "Prelude". The questions probe the meaning and significance of the title, characters' feelings and relationships, clues about a death mentioned in the story, the importance of dried purple leaves found in the story, who may have killed the man, multiple meanings of heat at the story's end, the irony of the widow being married to a judge, and whether justice was served by the story's events.

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    Guide Questions

    1. What is prelude? Why is that the title of the story?

    2. What does Nenita feel for her husband? Why do you


    think she feels that way? Cite textual evidences.

    3. What does her herbalista friend feel about Nenita’s


    husband?

    4. Who was the man that died in the first paragraph?

    5. How do you think he died? What clues in the text


    helped you to reach that conclusion?

    6. What is the importance of the dried purple leaves? Do


    you think that these were used in the story? How?

    7. Who killed the man? Explain your answer.

    8. The story ends with the feeling of heat. What are the
    many meanings of heat in the story?

    9. Why is it ironic that the widow was married to a judge?

    10. Do you think, with what happened, that some kind


    of justice was served? Why or why not?

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