Rabbit, Run Lesson Plan

Discuss Rabbit's thoughts and feelings as he waits for news of the baby and while visiting Janice afterward.

As Rabbit waits in the hospital, it seems to be the first time his guilt over abandoning his family weighs on him. He strains his ears to hear the cry of his baby and begins to think that Janice will give birth to a monster "of his making." He is overcome with a fear that there is no God and that Janice and the baby will die. When he is acknowledged by the Springers and his mother-in-law tells him that "If you're sitting there like a buzzard young man hoping she's going to die, you might as well go back to where you've been living," he becomes convinced that Mrs....