Explicate the relevance of the following sentences in terms of the story.  Questions to help guide you are:

• How do they drive the story forward?
• How do they point to the theme?
• Why are they essential to understanding?

Copy the chart.  Fill in with your responses.  Two condensed sentences maximum for each topic.

SENTENCE

RELEVANCE

1

When he woke up, he found himself happy.

2

Then his resistance collapsed completely, and he could not control his tears.

3

And whenever you face suffering you burst out laughing?

4

I did not come to you because I am mill, but because I am happy.