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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter twice: once as X-Ray would log it — a friendly chat, a reasonable arrangement — and once as the chapter actually stages it: the angry return, the visit's steps, the hedge that agrees, the recruitment-thinking, the late power analysis, the present-tense fantasy. Then state, in one sentence each, what the chapter establishes, what it implies, and what it withholds — naming the sentence doing the heaviest work in each category.
Discussion Questions
- X-Ray's visit obtains a standing claim on Stanley's future finds using only a secret, a fairness frame, and a question with one polite answer: 'That's only fair, right?' Weigh the visit as a piece of persuasion. Which of its elements does the most work, and why that one? Use the chapter's words from the visit to defend your ranking.
- The chapter reports Stanley's mind without correcting it: 'The more he thought about it, the more he was glad that he agreed.' Gather the reasons his thinking produces. Which seem true, which seem convenient, and which hold both at once? Use the chapter's words about surviving at Camp Green Lake to explain how you sorted them, and why the sorting matters.
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