Discussion #4

Emma Discussion #4

-Discussion #4-

April 29, 2015 

Questions by: everyone 

1.      What does Emma’s feelings about telling the news to Harriet show about her change in personality and/or her outlook on Harriet?

Emma is not as confident as before as Harriet has gone up in social stature (Shanon)

She’s showing her up with her reaction to the news, while Emma is embarrassed that she was wrong (Emily)

Emma is jealous of her (Grace)

2.      What leads Emma to believe Harriet is the “superior creature?’’

Emma was wrong, while Harriet was strong in the situation (Shanon)

Harriet took the news strong and was not upset (Emily)

3.      How does Mr. Knightley react to all the talk about Frank? What might this show?

Mr. Knightley shows anger and insults/questions Frank (Emily)

Mr. Knightley likes Emma and is jealous of Frank (Grace)

He is not happy with Emma liking Frank (Shanon)

4.      Why does Emma take Harriet to see Mrs. and Miss Bates?

They go to Mrs. and Miss Bates house for help with Mr. Elton and Harriet (Emily)

They go for advice on what to do about the situation (Grace)

5.      What does Harriet regret most about what happened over the past few weeks?

She feels weird about realizing Mr. Elton does not like her (Shanon)

She feels bad about declining Mr. Martin’s proposal (Emily)

6.      Why does Emma give up matchmaking?

Thought she was perfect but realized she is not (Grace)

She realized she was bad at it and it ruined some of her relationships with others (Shanon)

She failed and failure was something Emma would not do (Emily)

7.      What happens when Harriet receives the bad news about Mr. Elton?

She takes it okay, not very angry (Grace)

She accepts it and lives on (Shanon)

She understands and responds maturely (Emily)

8.      How do Emma and Mr. Knightley have different views during the fight about gender?

Emma thinks that women are treated unfairly (Grace)

Mr. Knightley doesn’t think Frank is worth the wait (Shanon)

Mr. Knightley thinks men should over rule women (Emily)

9.      How do you think this will impact their relationship?

They will get over it because it is just a stupid argument (Grace)

They will become more separated due to their different views (Shanon)

They will be in a fight for a long time (Emily)

10.  Why does the book touch on this topic?

To describe the growing conflict between the two characters (Grace)

To show the different views from back then (Shanon)

Creates a story with drama and lessons (Emily)