Deliverance

**Discussion Time:**

 * Thursday****, January 19,** **12:55-2:25 (5W)**

Chase Hughes Parker Langmaid Ethan Masse Chester Jacobs Alex Lucas Jonathan Mitchell Quinn Hathcock Marc Brown
 * Group Members:**

Discussion Agenda

 * Pre-Discussion Information **


 * __Characters:__ **
 * Ed- **Main Character/Narrator. Likes to use bow and arrow, very close with Lewis and admires him.
 * Lewis- **The "leader" of the journey, very outdoorsy and athletic, wants to live life to its fullest. Into hunting with bow and arrow.
 * Drew- **Plays the guitar. The “best of all of them.” Killed by either the hillbilly or a rock, only person who is against dumping the rapist.
 * Bobby- **Gets raped by the hillbillies. City boy and not good with the outdoors.
 * Martha- **Wife of Ed, seems loving and kind
 * Dean- **Son of Martha and Ed
 * Kitt Model Girl- **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Symbolist character that is brought to attention numerous times by Ed.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Setting:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Georgia - Cahulawassee river. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soon to be flooded by dam and turned into a lake. Very redneck in northern Georgia. Surrounding towns very primitive and isolated. River is biggest in Georgia. It’s very natural and pure.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Key Events/Scenes:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Gets the people to drive their cars to Antry 2. Rape/murder scene 3. Climbing up the cliff 4. Shooting the hillbilly 5. Planning the cover up down the river 6. Escaping the cops

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What to do with the body How to cover up the murders Drew vs the rest on turning the body into the cops or not.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Conflicts:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By doing it through the point of view of one of the characters involved in all of the events rather than just looking above all of the action in third person, we may get a more personal experience and deeper view into the story as readers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Narration:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A trip into the unknown wilderness where the group is met with challenges and is forced to overcome these challenges and then the group comes out of the wilderness changed. They go down the river for more than a night. = Discussion = = **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Questions:__ ** = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Response-- = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If put in the same situation as Ed with a deciding vote would you choose to bury the body or turn it over to the police? // = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you kill the other hillbilly if you were in Ed’s position? // = = ** Open-ended, analytical-- ** = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What motivated James Dickey to write this book? // = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why does it seem that Bobby and Ed give little thought about dumping Drew’s body into the river? // = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why does Ed agree with Lewis in burying the first body. // = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you trust random people in the hills with your cars? // = = //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What would have happened if they had brought the body down river like Drew wanted? // = //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was Drew shot? **// //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If Drew was shot, what do you think of him and Bobby switching canoes right before? Did the author do this on purpose? **// //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if Bobby was the on dead? Lewis? **// = ** Significant Passage-- ** = = //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What led to the change in Ed’s behavior when he takes charge of the remaining group members before scaling the cliff? **// =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Qualities of the Journey:__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Survival of the fittest <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Sense of Nature/Wilderness <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* City boys vs. hillbillys/country boys <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Why Bobby and Drew - discuss their importance = = = **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Protocols:__ ** = = ** Whip ** =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Themes/Messages/Ideas:__ **

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A n option to involve all group members would be to ask them the question if put in the same situation as Ed with a deciding vote would you choose to bury the body or turn it over to the police? ===== = ** Reactions/Emotions (kinda made this one up but it could be good -alex) ** =

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We could go around starting with an emotion like happy, saying a part/event/scene/thought of the book that made us happy or something in the book the reminded us of something that makes you happy, etc. then continue with other reactions like angry, sad, anxious/stressed out, unapproving/disagreeing, shocked, relieved, or anything else.... could help start some discussion....... ===== = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> = = **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Connections:__ ** =


 * <span style="background-color: initial; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Jr7af1FrQ__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -- Deliverance Movie Trailer (1972) **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Author: James Dickey - poet and writer, graduated with degrees in English and philosophy, served in the US air forces, also plays the sheriff in the ^ above movie **