Questions on THE BOY WHO LOVED ICE CREAM

1. Identify two (2) facts, in the story, that indicates the family's economic state.

2. What function is the family preparing to attend?

3. What prevented Benjy from tasting ice-cream?

4. Recount Elsa's description of ice-cream's taste.

5 Identify the differences, regarding personality, between Mama and Papa.

6. Why was Papa so impatient with Benjy?

7.Outline Papa's evidence that Mama was unfaithful to him.

8.Is the story set?

9. Who were the hosts for the event that the family attended?

10. How did this event evolve and change over time?

11. What two separate issues distracted Papa and Benjy throughout their attendance of the event?

12. Recount the events that led to Benjy losing his ice-cream.

13. What plot structure is used in the story?

14.What dramatic is used at the end of the story

15. What point of view is used in this short story?

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Answer:

1.- The clothes they wore since they are made of old clothes from other people and the fact that they bathed using kitchen tools instead of a proper shower

2.- The Harvest Festival

3.- Benjy is stopped from tasting his ice cream by his father who pulls him away.

4.- Elsa describes ice cream as the most beautiful dream with all great and bright colors and as a feeling of being hot and cold at the same time as well as how it disappears from your tongue as you touch it.

5.- Mama is an independent busy woman who is very active, social, and open to new experiences and learning, while Papa is all the opposite by being a narrow-minded antisocial routinary man who also felt extremely jealous of his wife's attitude.

6.- Because he had the idea that he was not his real son.

7.- He believes that his wife had been unfaithful to him, since she spent some time away to help her sick mother, although he thinks she left to meet her lov er.

8.- In a small town called One Eye in Jamaica

9.- the Harvest Festival is held in Springville

10.- The events evolve as the obsession of both father and son becomes bigger and bigger and leads them to deception.

11.- Papa was distracted by his jealousy and his obsession with following his wife while Benjy was distracted by his increasing necessity of trying an ice cream and satisfy their own delusions.

12.- As Benjy got his ice cream, his father saw how his mother was walking towards a man, and in a possessiveness at tack, he pulled the boy to confront who he believed was his wife's lo ver making Benjy's ice cream fall off.

13.- The story follows a simple and direct plot structure with expositions, rising action, cli max, falling action, resolution.

14.- The dramatic element at the end is the theme of delusion and unfairness as none of the two intense and troubled characters get what they were looking for.

15.- The story is told from the third-person point of view

Explanation:

The boys who loved ice cream is a short story written by Olive Senior a poet and novelist from Jamaica, this story shows how human beings attitude and mind can be controlled by their deepest and more intense obsessions and desi res, using several literary elements and following the story of a little boy along with his family. She shows several shadows in the rode to fulfill their long dreamed illutions.