Reading and writing for next Monday

Thanks for the good discussion today. Next time, we'll talk (much) more about the Langston Hughes piece. Also for next time:

Read and annotate Michael Patrick MacDonald's piece "Returning to Southie" (pp. 47-51). To the best of your ability, type up answers to these questions:

1. What is the event or experience that MacDonald is writing about? Why is he writing about it? What is his insight about that event or experience? (That is, what does he realize?)

2. What is the conflict that drives MacDonald's story?  Where does MacDonald's insight or realization occur in the essay? Is that the best place for the insight? Why or Why not? 

Please write in complete sentences.