1. What is character agency and how do characters' choices reveal their significance?

2. What is nuance and how do connotations of words create nuanced character descriptions?

3. How do the connotations of words like 'puffy' and 'hovering' in 'The Appropriation of Cultures' contribute to the characterization of the fraternity boys?

1. What are values and how do a character's values motivate the choices they make?

2. In 'The Sanctuary Desolated,' what conflicting values does Grandma experience when she agrees to stay with her daughter and son-in-law?

3. How can a character's conflicting values both relate to the same fundamental belief, such as family importance?

1. What is the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist, and why is the 'good guy versus bad guy' distinction oversimplified?

2. What are the different forms an antagonist can take in a story?

1. How can a society or collective serve as an antagonist to a protagonist?

2. In the Harry Potter example, how do the protagonist's values clash with the values of the collective society?

1. How can a protagonist and antagonist exist within the same character, and what does this reveal about internal conflict?

2. In 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' how does the narrator's conscience function as an antagonist to his pride in committing the murder?

1. How does nature function as an antagonist in 'To Build a Fire,' and what values clash in this conflict?

1. What makes a protagonist ambiguous, and how can readers sympathize with morally questionable protagonists?

2. In 'Frankenstein,' how does Mary Shelley create ambiguous relationships between Victor and the monster?

1. How do conflicts between protagonists and antagonists arise from tensions between different value systems?

2. In 'The Appropriation of Cultures,' what values does Daniel hold and how do they contrast with society's values?

3. How does Daniel's appropriation of symbols like 'Dixie' and the Confederate flag reflect his attempt to subvert the values of the society that stereotypes him?