Challenge 899

The View From the Ground

In Bill Prindle’s Her Favorite Demon: The letter that Lili receives about the scholarship is really a rejection notice. Would the letter identify the winner?
In Sheila Kinsella’s Mormor’s Will:
1. Why does the story not open with Agneta talking to her grandmother? What is the function of Agneta’s trip from Gothenburg? What would be lost if it were omitted?
2. Why does Agneta’s grandmother offer to bequeath her entire estate to Agneta? Do you think Agneta is right or wrong to decline the offer?
In Peter D. McQuade’s The Flight of the Golden Plover:
1. Why can the story not be told from the pilot’s first-person point of view?
2. What might be gained if the story were told from the pilot’s third-person point of view? What would be lost?
3. Why does the aircraft not maintain an altitude that would allow it to clear any bridges over the Mississippi River?