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K-Mart Sucks: Follow-up Questions to "Rain Man"

Choose two of the questions below, and spend about 150 words saying smart and interesting things for each of them. This must be accomplished by 9:00 p.m. Sunday, September 18, in order to apply extra credit to your first six weeks' average.

What do you feel is Charlie Babbitt's biggest flaw?

What do you think of Charlie's decision to return Raymond to Wallbrook?

Discuss why television is so important to Raymond.

Discuss the role of women in the lives of Raymond and Charlie.

In what ways does Charlie fill the "little brother" role? How does he fill the "big brother" role to Raymond?

PLEASE POST RESPONSES HERE ON THIS PAGE. I need them all in one place to grade them efficiently.

Words We Love / Words We Hate

From Jose P.:

I absolutely love the word foliage. It's the prettiest word I've ever seen. Foliage. Look at it! It's simply amazing. It has all the vowels that matter and none of the ones I hate. It even means something pretty. Flowers and grasses and bushes. It reminds me of a hollow in a forest with light shining down through the trees and birds chirping all over the place and that one bunny rabbit and a deer drinking from a stream and a butterfly just landing on your shoulder. Damn, I love that word. It's even fun to write in cursive. The "f" flows into the "o," which blends into the "l" and just prances like a majestic gazelle into the rest of the letters. The phrase "cellar door" sounds like it's being mauled by a tiger. But foliage. You just can't explain it. It's the best word in the English language.

From Amanda L.:

I HATE the F word! It is the worst word in the universe of words. When someone says this word, it's like they are stabbing me in the heart and don't even care. It's just so mean in my opinion, like why can't they use "fudge" or "flip" or some other nice word like I do? When I get mad, I don't go around throwing F bombs. I keep them in my head and use another word. It's the most aggressive word out of all the bad words that people just love to use. When I say I hate the F word, people like to say it repeatedly to make me feel uncomfortable. For some reason, I just always hated that word. And no matter how hard someone tries to make me say that ugly word, I'll never use it! And that's a promise I can keep.