Analyzing and interpreting the story
1. in writing a story about pestilence or plague,
poe would have in mind such historical examples as
the bubonic plague—the black death of the mid-
dle ages and the much more recent cholera epi-
demics that ravaged philadelphia in the 1990s and
baltimore in his own lifetime. but in this story,
plague takes the strange form of a red death rather
than a black one. what paradox is suggested by this
change?

Alvarez instruction active understanding characters what can you conclude about the daughters, based on the passage? check all that apply. her daughters would seek her out at night when she seemed to have a moment to talk to them: they were having trouble at school or they wanted her to persuade their father to give them permission to go into the city or to a shopping mall or a movie - in broad daylight, mami! laura would wave them out of her room. "the problem with you " the problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become americans and their father and their mother, too, at first - would have none of it. -“daughter of invention," julia alvarez they struggle to fit in. they feel supported by their mother. they value their mother's advice. they embrace american culture. they want to leave new york