Reader’s Response:

Title: The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson

Student’s Name: Beatriz Zambrano Serrano

Genre: Fantasy

Pages: 597

1.    Identify the meaning of a symbol in the story.

The wood symbolizes the meanness and selfishness with what the grandpa’s son and his wife had treated the poor old grandpa.

2.    State the theme and defend it in a paragraph.

The little grandson showed his parents what they were doing wrong by saying that he would do the same to them when they’ll grow old.

3.    Describe the main internal and external conflict.

The grandfather didn’t complain about the way he was being treated, he had an internal conflict. The grandfather was being treated

4.    Compare the lesson learned (theme) to a lesson you or someone you know has experienced.

You should treat others like you want them to treat yourself. People always hurt each other by saying jokes, but they don’t realize that some jokes are not funny.

5.    Compare a symbol in the story to a similar symbol in your life or someone you know.

Other symbol for evil is a devil; they represent everything bad that the world has: selfishness, not sharing, sadness, meanness, scaring, hazardous etc. 

6.    Compare the struggle in the story to a similar struggle you or someone you know has experienced.

Once, I got really mad because my friends were treating a boy in my class really bad. To teach them a lesson, I treated them the same way, when they realized what they were doing, they stopped. They said they didn’t want to be treated that way, so they wouldn’t treat him like that, either