Group Work on Octavia Butler�s
�The Evening and the Morning and the
Night�
Note: If you were not in class for this group exercise, please complete it as a written exercise and turn it in as soon as you can.
Break up into small groups.
Briefly share your answers to the reading questions on �The Evening and the Morning and the Night.� Then discuss the following. (Delegate one or more members of your group to prepare and present an oral summary of your group's discussion.)
1. What challenges the people in this story?
2. Do you know of any who concealed some aspect of
their identity from others out of concern for what would happen if their secret
were known? ��Do you know of any who changed their mind
despite their concerns?�� What happened?
3. �Some are better at things they would rather not do.� Do you know of any who had to choose between doing what they were best at and what they wanted to do?� How did they decide?� What can we learn from this?
4.� Do you
know of any who concealed some aspect of their identity from themselves out
of concern for what would happen if this aspect were acknowledged?
�Do you know of any who changed their
mind despite their concerns?�� What
happened?
Michael Kagan for COR400G, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY.
October 3, 2019