Challenge 1145

Classified

In C. H. Russellson’s Gravity of the Moment: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the first-person “I’ narrator’s depicting himself as a kind of observing or even dormant character?
In Michael J. D’Alfonsi’s Two Predators: What might be the social functions of the two characters? Is either one legitimately employed or are they both criminals?
In Mary-Jean Harris’s A Ruby in the Ice: Why do the dancers’ resistance and Mme Karina’s lost legs, which she is presumed to have had amputated voluntarily, not constitute an equal or greater reistance to the hubris of performance fame, which Liana achieves by renouncing it?
In Huina Zheng’s Second-Tier:
1. In North America, universities are more or less well-known, but do they have anything approaching the “first-tier” and “second-tier” classifications?
2. What are the bases of social discrimination in North America if not the status of one’s university degree?
In Charles C. Cole’s Acts of Grace: Why might the Rev. Bell make an allusion to “New Coke”? Does it appear dismissive of Swain’s grief or does it serve a different dramatic purpose?