Running After Antelope: Carpenter
1. What does the name of the story symbolize? Why Carpenter?
2.What is the significance of "When you see a thing happen once, it's an accident; when you see it happen twice it's a coincidence; and when you see it three or more times its a science, and science demands theories?" (Carrier, 49)
3.Is their a connection between Jesus and the carpenter partners?
4. Why does he feel a slave of the rich man? Can you think of someone's life you can parrallel it to or how does imagery fit in this question.
5.Why did the main character resent working on another man's house?
6. Why are the carpenter partner's so weird?
7. Why are these men so into their religion?
8. Do you agree in that everyone gets what one deserves like it says in "The righteous will be happy forever, while the 'bastards' 'the assholes' [...] will burn in hell?" (Carrier, 49)
9.Throughout the story was their anything ambiguous about the carpenters?
10. How come the mistake of the building of the architects home didn't fustrate his brother but him it did? Do you think his brother was a good man and it was just an acidently mistake which was going to csot him money out of his pocket? Why did he buy himself a new pair of boots what do they symbolize?
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