1. Why did the chicken cross the road? Hemingway: To die. Alone. In the rain. What inference can you make about Hemingway as a person? His writing style?

2. What do you know about an iceberg? Hemingway had the Iceberg Theory regarding writing. He gives you the facts—those hard facts are the tip of the iceberg floating above water. Everything else—the supporting structure— floats beneath the water, out of sight from the reader.

4. What do you know about white elephants? Definition-a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of History-It is said that the King of Siam would award a disagreeable courtier a white elephant, the upkeep of which would ruin the courtier.

5. Do you have any white elephants in your world? What is a modern day example of a white elephant?