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With All Flags Flying

 

With All Flags Flying
Study Guide

1. What does the motorcyclist represent to Mr. Carpenter?


2. Why does Mr. Carpenter choose to sit in a chair without rockers?


3. What do you think Clara is a symbol of?


4. Why does Mr. Carpenter choose to live in a nursing home?


5. What threatens Mr. Carpenters chosen way of life?


6. What does Lollie Simpson, the schoolteacher , represent to Mr. Carpenter?


7. How are Mr. Pond and Mr. Carpenter different?


8. Why does Mr. Carpenter enter the nursing home with nothing but a paper bag?


9. What do you think the message of the story is?