How would you characterize the storys mood

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For "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" answer 1-8 on p. 215 (listed below):

Question 1. How would you characterize the story's mood or atmosphere? How do Thomas's stories help to make this mood? How do they help to establish his character? Do you think the story should have included more of Thomas's stories?

Question 2. Why do you suppose Victor and Thomas cannot be friends when they get back to the reservation? Why are they able to be friends when they are traveling to Phoenix?

Question 3. Do the flashbacks to the two men's childhood add something vital to the story? What purpose do these flashbacks serve?

Question 4. In Native American culture, the storyteller holds an important position, telling tales that transmit and preserve the tribe's basic beliefs. Do you think Thomas's stories serve such a function? Or, do you think that he is, as Victor characterizes him, simply "the crazy storyteller who talked to dogs and cars, who listened to the wind and pine trees" (par. 170)?

Question 5. What do you think the story's title means?

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