Go over the following questions:How does this story resemble other stories in plot, character, setting, or symbolism?What universal experiences are depicted?Are patterns suggested? Are seasons used to suggest a pattern or cycle?Are the names significant?Is there a Christ-like figure in the work?Does the writer allude to biblical or mythological literature? For what purpose?What aspects of the work create deep universal responses to it?How does the work reflect the hopes, fears, and expectations of entire cultures (for example, the ancient Greeks)?How do myths attempt to explain the unexplainable: origin of man? Purpose and destiny of human beings?What common human concerns are revealed in the story?How does the story reflect the experiences of death and rebirth?What events occur in the story? (Quest? Initiation? Scapegoating? Descents into the underworld? Ascents into heaven?)What images occur? (Water, rising sun, setting sun, symbolic colors)What characters appear in the story? (Mother Earth? Femme Fatal? Wise old man? Wanderer?)What settings appear? (Garden? Desert?)What approach can be noted from the questions?