Challenge 1079

Confirmation

In David Barber’s Greatness, and How I Achieved It: Does the space battle with the Jirt really have to happen? Has it not been made irrelevant by George Walker’s becoming a speaker for the Jirt’s god?
In Shauna Checkley’s Finding a Home: Wbat is the dramatic function of the group that is hostile to Janessa? Solution: remove them from the story, leaving only Janessa and her kind-hearted friend, Victoria. What would readers say who have only contempt for the poor? Would they not say such a story was biased, whereas they might grudgingly grant that the one we actually have is more realistic?
In James Hanna’s The Land Fish: What are the comic elements in Trout’s ironic effort to write a “bad” novel? How do the characters of Trout’s wife, Jill, and his tragic heroine, Megan, combine to lead him to a self-realization quite removed from publc scorn or acclaim?
In Peter Mangiaracina’s The Alchemy of Attraction: Bert Tumnus wins Calathea’s love twice: once as Bert and again as Sylvan. Whom shall she love after Vince Sylvan’s nose falls off?
In Gil Hoy’s Hiking in Saguaro National Park: Is the tree at which the narrator pauses on his hike in the forest actually the one under which he and his former lover once camped? Why did the two of them argue? What seems to have separated them, finally?