Read short stories and find similarities and connections
You need to read the following short stories:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), p. 391
“Why I Wrote “’The Yellow Wallpaper’” p. 907
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (1978), p. 529
“On ‘Girl,’” p. 921
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927), p. 415
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948), p. 430
“The Morning of June 28, 1948, and ‘The Lottery,’” p. 918
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1931), p. 316
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (1957), p. 30
Said Sayrafiezadeh, “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” (2012), p. 795
Julie Otsuka, “The Children” (2011), p. 730
You can find the following stories online or in a book called:
Charters, Ann, Ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, Compact 9thEdition.
1) Find connections, similarities, characters it makes sense to compare and contrast, and so on. write down 4 thoughtful ideas that could work for essay questions based on the similarities or connections you found.
2) write the characters motivation (why does the character do what she/he does?), setting and the influence of the character’s environment, relationships between characters (separate each story).
3) What is your unfiltered reaction was to what the protagonist does in “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy.”
Solution PreviewOne of the similarities between the different short stories sis their reference to relationships within the various settings. For instance, the American in Hills like White Elephants engages in activities with the intent of having the lady…