After Twenty Years

1. Why is the stranger standing in the hardware store doorway? He's keeping an appointment made twenty years ago.	2. How did the stranger know Jimmy Wells? He didn't know Jimmy; he was there to meet him for the first time.
3. Where and when does the story take place? on a New York street around 10 p.m.	4. Who is the stranger there to see? his brother his old friend Jimmy his mother none of the above
5. Why were the two men going to meet after twenty years? to see how each of them had fared in life	6. Who was the patrolman on the beat? "Silky" Bob

7. Why do you think the author used the sentence, "His scarf pin was a large diamond, oddly set"? What does this imply? probably that it broken off some how.

8. What does the name "Silky" Bob imply about the stranger? that he was smooth

9. Explain the irony of the title "After Twenty Years." that after all that time they still remember the promise and met each other but he was sold to the authorities.

10. Why do you think Jimmy was unable to make the arrest himself? Please explain. Because they knew each other and he still thinks of him as a friend.

11. Why do you think the Chicago police wanted to have a little talk with "Silky" Bob? Support your answer with details from the story. He probably was some type of drug dealer because or a gang member because of the scarf and the diamonds

12. The stranger tells the policeman that he and Jimmy Wells were best friends, almost like brothers. What does it imply that they hadn't corresponded in years? That they had change the way they were now they think differently.

13. Do you think Jimmy Wells did the right thing? Explain why you think this. well yes because he help capture a criminal but no because it meant betrayed his friend

14. The stranger describes Jimmy Wells as "the truest, staunchest old chap in the world." In light of that, do you think he should have been surprised at the outcome of the meeting? Please explain. Yes because he said that he was trust worthy but in the end he betrayed him.

Vocabulary:

Pick 15 words from the text. Find the meaning in the dictionary and come up with one synonym (similar meaning) and antonym (the opposite). Make a table similar to the one below:

1.Beat:trike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, usually with an implement such as a club or whip.



2.Avenue: street; path
Synonyms: parkway.

3.Habitual: usual, established
Synonyms: cyclic
Antonyms: Infrequent

4.Spectators:Person who watches event
Synonyms: Beholder
Antonyms: Participant

5.Twirling:turn around circularly
Synonyms:

gyre, pirouette, whirligig.

Antonyms: straight, untwirl, untwist

6.Stalwart: strong, valiant
Synonyms: Brave
Antonyms:Cowardly

7.Intricate: Complicated, Elaborate.
Synonyms: abstruse
Antonyms: Clear

8.Thoroughfare: Channel
Synonyms: pathway

9.Swagger:Show off; walk pompously
Synonyms: brag
Antonyms:humility

10. Slight: insult,disrespect
Synonyms:brush-off
Antonyms:compliment

11.Vicinity:local area
Synonyms: district
Antonyms:faraway

12.Hardware:tools;fittings,especially made of metal
Synonyms:accouterments, appliances, fasteners, fixtures, household furnishings, housewares, implements, ironware, kitchenware, metalware, plumbing, utensils

13.Unlighted:Lack of light
Synonyms: Cimmerian, aphotic, atramentous,blackish, caliginous, clouded
Antonyms:Bright

14.Appointment: arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting
Synonyms: assignation


15.Dragged:haul something to a new place
Synonyms:draw, hale