'Will You Please Be Quiet Please?'- Sixty Acres Notes.
1. What is the story about? Answer this question in two sentences – one that explains the story literally, and one sentence that considers the deeper meanings and messages.
Lee Waite lives on his sixty acres of land, with his family. He usually sits on the porch to see if anyone tries to trespass, since he received the phone call from his friend Joseph Eagle that people are hunting on his land. One day he hears people on his land, and gets his gun and moves towards them. He tells them to leave immediately. That night when he goes back home, he talks to his wife, Nina, about leasing some of his land.
He doesn’t know what clear decisions to make. In the end regarding the land, he doesn’t know whether to keep his land and keep the heritage, or to lease it and go with what’s happening. He gets pressured from both ways. He’s reluctant to make decisions.
2. What does Lee Waites ‘use’ his sixty acres for at the start of the narrative?
Nothing at the start. It shows that the land isn’t so prosperous.
3. Consider Joseph Eagle’s constant phone calls, Charley Treadwell’s experience with his ducks, and Waites’ choice not to go to school on the day of the field trip. How do these events create the growing pressure Waites feels?
This creates the growing pressure Waites feels, because he feels that his land is not safe, and that he must always be there to protect it, because if he’s ever not there, something will happen to his land. He wanted to just shut himself from everything relating to the land and as much as he tried, it keeps coming to him. He feels pressured by having the responsibility of the sixty acres, and having it all to himself.
4. Describe the house that Lee Waites and his family live in. How do they live and how has that lifestyle affected Nina over the years?
They live in an old house, and this can be told from the description that is given about how their porch was built just before the war, and one window glass had been knocked out years
Lee Waite lives on his sixty acres of land, with his family. He usually sits on the porch to see if anyone tries to trespass, since he received the phone call from his friend Joseph Eagle that people are hunting on his land. One day he hears people on his land, and gets his gun and moves towards them. He tells them to leave immediately. That night when he goes back home, he talks to his wife, Nina, about leasing some of his land.
He doesn’t know what clear decisions to make. In the end regarding the land, he doesn’t know whether to keep his land and keep the heritage, or to lease it and go with what’s happening. He gets pressured from both ways. He’s reluctant to make decisions.
2. What does Lee Waites ‘use’ his sixty acres for at the start of the narrative?
Nothing at the start. It shows that the land isn’t so prosperous.
3. Consider Joseph Eagle’s constant phone calls, Charley Treadwell’s experience with his ducks, and Waites’ choice not to go to school on the day of the field trip. How do these events create the growing pressure Waites feels?
This creates the growing pressure Waites feels, because he feels that his land is not safe, and that he must always be there to protect it, because if he’s ever not there, something will happen to his land. He wanted to just shut himself from everything relating to the land and as much as he tried, it keeps coming to him. He feels pressured by having the responsibility of the sixty acres, and having it all to himself.
4. Describe the house that Lee Waites and his family live in. How do they live and how has that lifestyle affected Nina over the years?
They live in an old house, and this can be told from the description that is given about how their porch was built just before the war, and one window glass had been knocked out years