Reading Assignment #2 – Group B
The girl with her head half-bent to see the leaves by her shoes
Her head was half bent to watch her shoes stir the circling leaves. Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Her dress was white and it whispered. He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.
Question 1 – ‘Hunger’ means “the feeling of needing to eat”, but how does the author use ‘hunger’ in the story? “The feeling of needing to ____________.”
Question 2 – What doesn’t escape?
Question 3 – What does “[her dress] whispered” mean (personification)?
Question 4 – What does ‘motion’, ‘stir’, ‘pavement’, and ‘waiting’ mean?
Question 5 – What does the last sentence mean?