In LA class, we were assigned to read a book about trees and answer questions. Here are the questions:

1. What is the title of your story?
The apples of love and the apples of discord.

2. Who is the author?
Ingri and Edgar Parin D’aulaire

3. Who are the main characters?
Atalanta, Melanion.

4. What is the plot or storyline of the story?                                                A man named Melanion wants to challenge Atalanta. He gets three apples of love and every time she starts to catch up, he throws the apple back and she follows it. In the second story, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena think they are the fairest. Zeus doesn’t want a war between the gods so he has Paris decide.

5. What role do trees play in the story?
The trees give the golden apples.

6. What is the central conflict of the story?
The central conflict is figuring out who is the fairest god.

7. What is the outcome or solution to the conflict?
Paris gives the apple to Aphrodite for a beautiful wife.

8. How are trees used in the story?
The tree was a prop for action.

9. What is the overall message that is conveyed in the story?
Don’t be vain.

10. What should readers learn from reading this story?
To not be vain.