PAAE: 81-112

Free write: How much change can we survive and still remain ourselves? Think about how context informs our identity and what happens when the context changes to the extent that Max and Daniel experienced it.

Some questions from prior reading ...

1. "You love to learn, Max, you love to desire" (58) Is this a true assessment of Max as we, the reader, know him?

2. What role does Bertrand serve as this point in the novel?

3. Tone of the start of Chapter 6

4. Part 3: the homecoming. Let's read the chapter out loud. How would you describe the tone and mood of the chapter?

From last night's

1. What has become of Paris? Reference specifics from the text as to the changes that have occurred or are observed.

2. p. 96: the curse. What's that all about? How does Daniel's response to the stolen art work reveal his true character?

3. p. 98: What are we to think of Daniel's comment that, "This is why we do poorly when we affix ourselves to objects. They lead to longing and to speculation." What then is Daniel missing? Why is he so depressed in Paris? So depressed is has begun to die.

4. How is Max surviving in Paris? How is he trying to recapture what was lost in his life?