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    Prelude Guide Questions

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    1. The document provides 10 discussion questions about the short story "Prelude". 2. The questions probe the meaning and significance of various elements in the story, including the title, the feelings and motivations of the main characters, and clues about how the husband died. 3. Many of the questions hint that the wife Nenita murdered her adulterous husband with poisonous dried purple leaves given to her by her herbalist friend, representing a form of justice for his mistreatment of her.

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    1. The document provides 10 discussion questions about the short story "Prelude". 2. The questions probe the meaning and significance of various elements in the story, including the title, the feelings and motivations of the main characters, and clues about how the husband died. 3. Many of the questions hint that the wife Nenita murdered her adulterous husband with poisonous dried purple leaves given to her by her herbalist friend, representing a form of justice for his mistreatment of her.

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    1. The document provides 10 discussion questions about the short story "Prelude". 2. The questions probe the meaning and significance of various elements in the story, including the title, the feelings and motivations of the main characters, and clues about how the husband died. 3. Many of the questions hint that the wife Nenita murdered her adulterous husband with poisonous dried purple leaves given to her by her herbalist friend, representing a form of justice for his mistreatment of her.

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    PRELUDE GUIDE QUESTIONS:

    1. What is a prelude? why is that the title of the story?


    - Prelude is a starting piece to a larger or larger piece of literature or
    music. The story is titled prelude because the story is introduced as
    one story, but as the reader expands and gets more insight on the
    story, the reader will find it exciting.

    2. What does Nenita feel for her husband? Why do you think
    she feels that way?
    -Nenita appears to be a compassionate, comforting, and respectful
    wife to her husband at first glance. Nenita's personality, on the other
    hand, exposes far more than it reveals. She feels that way because her
    husband dismisses and devalues her existence.

    3.What does her herbalista friend feel about Nenita’s


    husband?
    -She believes Nenita's husband is a bastard. Above all else, the
    poison she purchases gives her a feeling of protection, a sense that
    she is doing something instead of being a passive victim of her
    husband's devastating adultery.

    4.Who was the man that died in the first paragraph?


    -The man who died in the first paragraph is Nenita’s husband.

    5.How do you think he died? What clues in the text


    helped you to reach that conclusion?
    -The manner in which his husband died was not specified, and
    it can only be assumed that he due to his illness. However,
    after a few certain readings, it was assumed that Nenita
    murdered her own husband. The line "She could have
    prepared him then that other brew her herbalista friend had
    suggested at the time, the one that would make his balls
    shrink, give him hallucinations, make his blood boil until his
    veins popped." This conclusion in the text gave me a clue, but
    if you understand it more, She did not do it without a doubt
    because she doesn't want the murder to be recognized. Even
    though this could be considered her small way of showing her
    frustration towards her husband, she expresses her displeasure
    with her husband. Furthermore, she did not appear to be
    worried about her husband when she heard him choke.

    6.What is the importance of dried purple leaves? Do


    you think that these were used in the story? How?
    -The herbalista gave the dried purple leaves of a rare vine,
    which was only found on Mt. Banahaw in the north. She had
    known that she would not use it but still, she drew some sense
    of safety in knowing that she had a packet stashed behind one
    of the kitchen drawers, a really relaxing sensation of power.
    Yes, it was the herb that was used to kill her husband.

    7.Who killed the man? Explain your answer.


    - As I see it, the herbalista friend of Nenita killed the man
    because he thinks that Nenita’s husband is no good for her
    and gave Nenita a poisonous leaf which Nenita gave to her
    husband.

    8.The story ends with the feeling of heat. What are the
    many meanings of heat in the story?
    -I would say heat signifies love, frustration or rage, and the
    utter worthlessness of life, which involves persistent
    inspiration.

    9.Why is it ironic that the widow was married to a


    judge?
    -judge means you are criticized by other people around you.
    the judge here in the story, stands for the husband who cheated
    and still cheating on his wife, it's ironic because he's married
    to a widow who don't deserve all these kind of frustrating
    actions.

    10. Do you think, with what happened, that some


    kind of justice was served? Why or why not?
    - The man committed adultery and never really cared about the
    relationship he has with his wife. For me, there was justice
    served because after all of her wife have been through. The
    man deserved it because of his reckless actions.

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