Refer to the The Definitive Online Edition of the Spoon River Anthology. Or the Text Only Version.

Journaling:
Read through your chosen monologue a few times. Write down some quick notes about the epitath. After hearing so many others in class, does your chosen monologue make more sense? Do you have more of a sense of who this person is, either based on additional information you may have discovered in other monologues, or just in relation to how others in Spoon River lived their lives?

New questions you should answer:

1. Who are they? Did they have a profession/job/calling? What was their 'way of living'? Who were they in the town? Did they have a status? Had that status changed before their death? Was their death caused by the status?

2. Write down four things you know about them - facts.

3. Relationships? - who did they mention? who mentions them? How does your character feel about the people they mention?

4. What happened to them in life? What happened to them in death?

5. What is their tone? Are they angry? Nostalgic? Reflective?

When Journaling, don't worry so much about grammar, punctuation and spelling. Use it as a notepad for your thoughts. Words, phrases, etc. are perfectly acceptable. Use this as a scratch pad to write down ideas that haven't fully formed. Then go back over these words and re-write them into fully formed thoughts. These thoughts, ideas and sentences will be a jump-off point for your paper.

For your monologue type up the following:

1. The complete monologue (including the title - the name of the person)
2. A more in-depth character description. Use what you wrote in Assignment 1 and expand on it, using the answers to the questions in the Journaling section. 
3. Discuss what the 'theme' of the monologue is.
4. Describe your reaction to the monologue. Do you agree with them? Are you appalled by their words and feelings? Do you feel for their situation, feel bad for them, wish they had a better life?
5. This paper should be 2-3 pages in length.