Discussion Questions

                                                     Discussion Questions #6A-D

6A) The title suggest to me before reading the selection that the chapter would be about a

woman who had problems with a specific person and was not comfortable being around that

person.

6B) After reading the selection, I understood that the title means that this woman, Maria Sabida, ended up marrying this man because she didn’t want the fear of this man stop her from doing what she wanted to do. An example in the story that connects to what the writer believes and the title is on page 80. “To marry the killer means to me that the artist has wedded the negative forces in her life that would keep her from fulfilling her mission and, furthermore, that she has made the negative forces work for her instead of against her. This shows that she didn’t want the fear of this man get in the way of accomplishing her goals.

6C) I think that the writer intended her readers to not allow fear to set you back from following ones dreams. She uses this man to be what we call “fear” and Maria Sabida plays the role of us woman. She also talks about love. Not necessarily, the love that a man and woman has but the love that you have for something that you wish to do. An example is “But a writer, I choose to interpret the tale of the woman who outmaneuvers the killers, who marries him so that she does not have to fear him, as a metaphor for the woman creator.”

6D) The title helps me figure out the significance of the selection by knowing that this figure of speech is usually said when someone wants keeps an out look out on someone or something because they are scared or unsure of someone or something. In this case, the woman slept with one eye open because she feared her husband.