In-Class Assignment for Week of 21 October 2008

LIVING DOLL

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View segments 1, 2, and 3 of Living Doll and answer the following questions:
    1. What does the mother, Annabelle, ask her daughter, Christie, to do with her present after removing it from the car?
    2. Who says that Christie doesn't need another doll?
    3. How long has Christie had her eye on the doll?
    4. What is the doll's name?
    5. How did the mother pay for the doll?
    6. What can the doll do?
    7. How does the mother say Christie feels?
    8. What does Eric call Freudian analysis?
    9. How does the doll prove him wrong?
    10. What is the first thing the doll says to Eric?
    11. What is the second thing the doll says to Eric?
    12. What does she say after Eric throws the doll?
    13. What does the doll to Annabelle, the mother, after Eric picks her up?
    14. Who does Eric feel angry towards?
    15. Why do you think Eric is incapable of loving children?
    16. Why does Christie apologize to Eric?
    17. What does the doll say to Christie after this?
    18. Where did mother and daughter buy the doll?
    19. Why does the mother say she bought the doll for Christie?
    20. How does Eric interpret the mother's explanation for why she bought Christie the doll?
    21. What does the doll say to Eric after Christie leaves the house to join her playmate?
    22. What does Eric say to the doll?
    23. What is the doll's response?
    24. What does Tina say when Eric says she has feelings?
    25. How might the doll's answer apply to Eric?
    26. What does Eric think has been put in the doll?
    27. What word does Christie call the doll before taking her out?
    28. What relationship is Eric to Christie?
    29. What did the mother tell Eric she told Christie about where the doll is?
    30. What does the doll say over the phone?
    31. Where does Eric put the doll?
    32. What does Eric say about the joke he thinks Annabelle and Christie are playing on him?
    33. What does the doll tell the sleeping Christie when Eric tries to remove it from the bed?
    34. What does Eric tell Christie about being her daddy?
    35. Why does Annabelle want to leave?
    36. Who does Annabelle say Eric hates?
    37. What kind of doctor does Annabelle recommend that Eric visit?
    38. What does the doll say after Eric removes her from the garbage can the second time?
    39. Why do you think Eric hates Christie?
    40. What does the doll tell the mother at the end?
    41. What do you think the doll represents in the film?
    42. Why do you think the doll threatens the mother after Eric's death?
    43. Why might Eric have a guilty conscience?
    44. The Roman writer, Plutarch tells the story of a border guard who, when asked by a traveler what kind of people lived in his country, asks the traveler the kind of people who lived in the country he's left. When the traveler says "kind people," the border guard says, "The same kind of people live here." Another traveler replies to the border guard's question, "Bad people," and the border guard replies, "The same kind of people live here." What is the point of Plutarch's story? How would you apply it to the story in  Living Doll?

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