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Temporary Matter" Reading Response
Question 1. Provide descriptions of Shoba and Shukumar in both the past and the present.
Shoba Shukumar
Past: Past:
Present: Present:
Question 2. What tragic event has occurred?
Question 3. What feelings/emotions does Lahiri evoke in the reader? Quote relevant sections and describe the feelings.
Question 4. How do you imagine Shoba and Shukumar's relationship was prior to the tragic event? How did you come to this conclusion?
Question 5. Describe what their relationship is like after the tragic event. Cite evidence.
Question 6. What comment is Lahiri making about relationships? Explain. Give textual evidence.
Question 7. As readers, how are we meant to view:
Shoba?
Shukumar?
**Provide quotations as evidence of your explanation.
Question 8. What provides the opportunity for Shoba and Shukumar to express some of their inner thoughts and feelings? What do they reveal to each other?
Question 9. By the end of the story has anything been resolved for either of the characters?
Question 10. Did you expect the outcome? Why or why not? How does Lahiri manipulate us and our expectations? How does the conflict between our expectations and the reality of the ending communicate the message/theme?