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· The following version of this story was used to create this Lesson Plan: Adrian, Chris. "A Tiny Feast." The New Yorker (2009). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/20/a-tiny-feast.

· The story opens with a discussion of a sick child.

· The child was sick long before his parents truly realized.

· The mother, Titania, noticed something was not right before her husband, Oberon, did, and she is quick to remind Oberon of this.

· Titania saw this as “evidence that she loved him more” (1).

· The parents are immortal and have little experience with illness.

· Though the two “had taken many mortal lovers” (1), the relationships all ended before they aged.

· Any changelings the two had had prior stayed in good health “until they were returned, unstuck from their proper times, to the mortal world” (1).

· The boy’s doctor, Dr. Blork, explains to the parents that he understands they may feel guilty, but...

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