(1) What is the story’s Geographic Where?
(2) What is the story’s Historic When?
(3) What are the circumstances of the action?
(4) Brody is a good person. How do we know?
(5) What’s Brody afraid of?
(6) What is Brody’s transformation? That is, Brody when we first meet him and Brody when we last see him: in what way different? How causes this transformation to come about?
(7) What message is conveyed by Brody’s transformation? (What message can we distill from the change in Brody and how it came about?)
(8) What’s Quint “out to revenge”? Is his desire for vengeance rational?
(9) What is Quint’s transformation–and what message does this transformation convey?
(10) Which emotions does Jaws cause its viewers to experience? How does it cause its viewers to experience these emotions?