Who is guilty party at the end of the text and how does his actions contribute the stories theme? The story Is the Guilty Party

7. How is the narrator's removal of the wallpaper an example of dramatic irony and how does it impact the image the author is creating of the main character?

 

8. What does the narrator mean when she says, "I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?". Explain your answer thoroughly.

 

9. What is meant by the narrator when she says, "I've got out at last...in spite of you and Jane! And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"? How is it significant?

 

10. Using evidence from the text, what do you think is the central theme of the story?

Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe 11 unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" 12

 

If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe 13 to Him? Fondly do we hope - fervently 14 do we pray - that this mighty scourge 15 of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's 16 two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil 17 shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

 

With malice 19 toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.