Required Reading: Page 65 – 74 in my attached PDF file.
！！Write an essay that addresses one of the following options. Indicate by the number, or by explanation, the item you have selected. The suggested length for your essay is from four to six typed, double-spaced
pages. Use basic essay format, with an introduction, body of support, and concluding paragraph. Be sure to use examples or incidents and short quotations from the stories to illustrate key discussion points.
1. Using the same guidelines for college composition that you have followed in previous assignments, analyze and interpret the “epiphanies” realized within each of the three assigned stories. Don’t forget to illustrate and support your assertions with detailed, concrete examples or incidents and direct quotes from the stories.
2. Many of the “epiphanies” in these stories are related to the tension between illusion or fantasy and reality. Using incidents,examples, and illustrative quotes from all three stories, explore this idea.
3. Citing examples, incidents, and quotations, discuss the role that“environment” or “setting” plays in the individual choices that are presented within all three stories.
4. Explore the authors’ use of irony in all three stories. Support your key points with a balance of quotations and detailed examples.
5. In all three stories, explain how the titles relate to the stories’themes or major author-messages. Support your discussion with quotes and specific incidents or examples from the stories.
！！Selected Critical Resources for Unit 5
