Question

What is/are appropriate reading question(s) to ask about the following selection in order to learn more about the story’s meaning?

Answer 1

(from "The Great Stone Face," by Nathanial Hawthorne, 1889)
The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the features of the human countenance. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice. There was the broad arch of the forehead, a hundred feet in height; the nose, with its long bridge; and the vast lips, which, if they could have spoken, would have rolled their thunder accents from one end of the valley to the other. True it is, that if the spectator approached too near, he lost the outline of the gigantic visage, and could discern only a heap of ponderous and gigantic rocks, piled in chaotic ruin one upon another. Retracing his steps, however, the wondrous features would again be seen; and the farther he withdrew from them, the more like a human face, with all its original divinity intact, did they appear; until, as it grew dim in the distance, with the clouds and glorified vapor of the mountains clustering about it, the Great Stone Face seemed positively to be alive.

Answer 2

How many rocks were used to create the Great Stone Face?

Is the thing the author describes really alive, or is it dead?

What is the Great Stone Face, and why is it called a face?

Where is this face located, and how can you find it in real life?

Answer 3

@kelliegirl33

Answer 4

@SWAG

Answer 5

@SnuggieLad

Answer 6

@stabar

Answer 7

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