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Table of Contents
Part I¿¿¿¿ Getting Started: From Response to Argument¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
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Chapter 1¿¿¿¿¿ How to Write an Effective Essay: A Crash Course¿¿¿
¿¿¿¿ The Basic Strategy¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Looking Closely: Approaching a First Draft¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft¿¿
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist for Revising a Draft¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Peer Review¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Preparing the Final Version¿¿
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Chapter 2¿¿¿¿¿ The Writer as Reader
¿¿¿¿ Reading and Responding¿¿
Kate Chopin¿•¿Ripe Figs¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Reading as Re-creation¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Collecting Evidence, Making Reasonable Inferences¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Reading with Pen in Hand¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Recording Your First Responses¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Identifying Your Audience and Purpose¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Arguing a Thesis in an Essay¿¿
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Images of Ripening in Kate Chopin’s ‘Ripe Figs’”¿¿
¿¿¿¿ The Argument Analyzed¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Behind the Scenes: From Early Responses to Final Version¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Other Possibilities for Writing¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Looking Closely at Two Contemporary Mini-Stories: Lydia Davis’s “Childcare” and “City People”¿¿
Lydia Davis¿•¿Childcare¿¿
Lydia Davis¿•¿City People¿¿
¿¿¿¿ A Story, with a Student’s Notes and Final Essay¿¿
Ray Bradbury¿•¿August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains¿¿
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Student Essay with Preliminary Notes:¿ “The Lesson of August 2026”¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Stories for Analysis¿¿
Michele Serros¿•¿Senior Picture Day¿¿
Guy de Maupassant¿•¿The Necklace¿¿
T. Coraghessan Boyle • Greasy Lake***
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Chapter 3¿¿¿¿¿ The Reader as Writer¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Developing a Thesis, Drafting, and Writing an Argument¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Prewriting: Getting Ideas¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Annotating a Text¿¿
¿¿¿¿ More about Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin¿•¿The Story of an Hour¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing¿¿
¿¿¿¿ Focused Free Writing¿
¿¿¿¿ Listing
¿¿¿¿ Asking Questions
¿¿¿¿ Keeping a Journal
¿¿¿¿ Arguing with Yourself: Critical Thinking
¿¿¿¿ Arguing a Thesis
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Checklist: Thesis Sentence
¿¿¿¿ Drafting Your Argument
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Draft: “Ironies in an Hour”
¿¿¿¿ Revising an Argument
¿¿¿¿ Outlining an Argument
¿¿¿¿ Soliciting Peer Review, Thinking about Counterarguments
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Final Version of the Sample Essay: “Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour’”
¿¿¿¿ A Brief Overview of the Final Version
¿¿¿¿ Writing on Your Computer
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Writing with a Computer
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Additional Stories for Analysis
Kate Chopin¿•¿Désirée’s Baby
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Student’s Analysis: “Race and Identity in ‘Désirée’s Baby’”
¿¿¿¿ Additional Stories for Study
Kate Chopin¿•¿The Storm
Anton Chekhov¿•¿Misery
V. S. Naipaul• The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book
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Chapter 4¿¿¿¿¿ The Pleasures of Reading--And of Writing --Arguments about Literature***
¿¿¿¿ The Open Secret of Good Writing***
Bruce Holland Rogers • Three Soldiers***
¿¿¿¿¿¿ Getting Ready to Write: A Student’s Responses, from¿ Jottings to Final Essay***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student:¿¿Thinking about Three Soldiers Thinking***
¿¿¿¿ ¿The Student’s Analysis Analyzed***
¿¿¿¿¿ Additional Stories for Study
John Steinbeck¿•¿The Chrysanthemums
Bobbie Ann Mason¿•¿Shiloh¿
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Chapter 5¿¿¿¿¿ Writing as Performance***
¿¿¿¿ The Writer as Performer***
Robert Frost• The Span of Life***
¿¿¿¿¿ The Reader as Performer***
Jamaica Kincaid• Girl
Anatole France• Our Lady’s Juggler***
¿¿¿¿ 2 Txt Poms***
Julia Bird• A txt msg pom***
Norman Silver• txt commandments ***
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Chapter 6¿¿¿¿¿¿ Reading Literature Closely: Explication
¿¿¿¿What Is Literature?¿
¿¿¿¿ Literature and Form¿
¿¿¿¿ Form and Meaning¿
Robert Frost¿•¿The Span of Life¿
¿¿¿¿ Reading in Slow Motion
¿¿¿¿ Explication
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Explication
Langston Hughes¿•¿Harlem
¿¿¿¿¿ Working Toward an Explication
¿¿¿¿¿ Some Journal Entries
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student (Final Version): “Langston Hughes’s ‘Harlem’”
¿¿¿¿ Explication as Argument
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Drafting an Explication
¿¿¿¿ Why Write? Purpose and Audience
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Poems for Explication
William Shakespeare¿•¿Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)
John Donne¿•¿Holy Sonnet XIV (Batter my heart, three-personed God)
Emily Brontë¿•¿Spellbound
Li-Young Lee¿•¿I Ask My Mother to Sing
Randall Jarrell¿•¿The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner¿
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Chapter 7¿¿¿¿ ¿Reading Literature Closely: Analysis
¿¿¿¿ Analysis
¿¿¿¿ Analyzing a Story from the Hebrew Bible: The Judgment of Solomon
The Judgment of Solomon
¿¿¿¿¿ Analyzing the Story
¿¿¿¿¿ Other Possible Topics for Analysis
¿¿¿¿ Analyzing a Story from the New Testament: The Parable of the Prodigal Son
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
¿¿¿¿ Summary
¿¿¿¿ Paraphrase
¿¿¿¿ Comparison: An Analytic Tool
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Two New Women”
¿¿¿¿ Looking at the Essay
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Revising a Comparison
¿¿¿¿ Evaluation in Explication and Analysis
¿¿¿¿ Choosing a Topic and Developing a Thesis in an Analytic Paper
¿¿¿¿ Analyzing a Story
James Thurber¿•¿The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
¿¿¿¿ Working Toward a Thesis: Journal Entries
¿¿¿¿ Developing the Thesis: Making Lists
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Sample Draft by a Student: “Walter Mitty Is No Joke”
¿¿¿¿ Developing an Argument
¿¿¿¿ Introductory Paragraphs
¿¿¿¿ Middle Paragraphs
¿¿¿¿ Concluding Paragraphs
¿¿¿¿ Coherence in Paragraphs: Using Transitions
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Revising Paragraphs
¿¿¿¿ Review: Writing an Analysis
¿¿¿¿ A Note on Technical Terminology
¿¿¿¿ A Lyric Poem and a Student’s Argument
Aphra Behn¿•¿Song: Love Armed
¿¿¿¿ Journal Entries
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “The Double Nature of Love”
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Editing a Draft
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Short Stories and Poems for Analysis
Edgar Allan Poe¿•¿The Cask of Amontillado
Katherine Anne Porter¿•¿The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
José Armas¿•¿El Tonto del Barrio
Leslie Marmon Silko¿•¿The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Billy Collins¿•¿Introduction to Poetry
Robert Frost¿•¿The Road Not Taken
Robert Herrick¿•¿To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Martín Espada¿•¿Bully
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Chapter 8¿¿¿¿ ¿Arguing an Interpretation
¿¿¿¿ Interpretation and Meaning
¿¿¿¿¿ Is the Author’s Intention a Guide to Meaning?
¿¿¿¿ What Characterizes a Sound Interpretation?
¿¿¿¿ An Example: Interpreting Pat Mora’s “Immigrants”
Pat Mora¿•¿Immigrants
¿¿¿¿ Thinking Critically about Responses to Literature
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Writing an Interpretation
¿¿¿¿ Two Interpretations by Students
Robert Frost¿•¿Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Sample Essay by a Student: “Stopping by Woods—and Going On”
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Sample Essay by a Student: “‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ as a Short Story”
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Poems for Interpretation
Robert Frost¿•¿Mending Wall
T. S. Eliot¿•¿The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
John Keats¿•¿Ode on a Grecian Urn
Thomas Hardy¿•¿The Man He Killed
Gwendolyn Brooks¿•¿The Mother
¿¿¿¿ Stories for Interpretation
Joyce Carol Oates¿•¿Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Jorge Luis Borges•The Lottery in Babylon***
Thinking Critically: Case Study on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”¿
¿¿¿¿ Overview of the Case Study¿
William Faulkner¿•¿A Rose for Emily
¿¿¿¿ Typescript Showing Material Deleted from the Published Version
¿¿¿¿ William Faulkner¿•¿Comments on the Story
¿¿¿¿ Two Interpretations by Students, with Notes/Outlines
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Sample Essay by a Student: “Why Miss Emily Grierson Killed Homer Barron”
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Sample Essay by a Student: “Insight into Horror: The Role of the Narratorin ‘A Rose for Emily’”
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Chapter 9¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Arguing an Evaluation
¿¿¿¿ Criticism and Evaluation¿
Jeffrey Whitmore• Bedtime Story
Douglas L. Haskins¿• Hide and Seek
Mark Plants¿• Equal Rites
¿¿¿¿ Are There Critical Standards?¿
¿¿¿¿ Morality and Truth as Standards¿
¿¿¿¿ Other Ways of Thinking about Truth and Realism¿
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Poems and Stories for Evaluation
Sarah N. Cleghorn¿•¿The Golf Links
Wilfred Owen¿•¿Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen¿•¿Anthem for Doomed Youth
Henry Reed¿•¿Naming of Parts
Katherine Mansfield¿•¿Miss Brill
W. Somerset Maugham¿•¿The Appointment in Samarra
Ambrose Bierce¿•¿An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Isabel Allende¿•¿If You Touched My Heart
Helena Maria Viramontes¿•¿The Moth
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Chapter 10¿¿¿¿¿¿ Research Writing with Sources
What Research Is, and What Research Is Not
Primary and Secondary Materials
Locating Materials: First Steps
Other Bibliographic Aids
Electronic Sources
Encyclopedias: Print and Electronic Versions
The Internet/World Wide Web
Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web
What Does Your Own Institution Offer?
Checklist: Using the World Wide Web
Taking Notes
Two Mechanical Aids: The Photocopier and the Computer
A Guide to Note-Taking
Drafting the Paper
Focus on Primary Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Checklist: Avoiding Plagiarism
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Part II Up Close: Thinking Critically about Literary Works and Literary Forms¿
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Chapter 11¿¿¿¿¿¿ Critical Thinking: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Making Comparisons
¿¿¿¿ What Is Critical Thinking?
¿¿¿¿ Asking and Answering Questions
¿¿¿¿ Comparing and Contrasting
¿¿¿¿ Analyzing and Evaluating Evidence
¿¿¿¿ Thinking Critically: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Comparing—E. E. Cummings’s “Buffalo Bill ’s”
E. E. Cummings¿•¿Buffalo Bill ’s
¿¿¿¿ A Short-Short Story, and Its Revised Version
Raymond Carver¿•¿Mine
Raymond Carver¿•¿Little Things
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Writing an Argument about Carver’s Two Stories
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Chapter 12¿¿¿¿¿ A Brief Guide: Writing about Literature
Standing Back: Kinds of Writing
Getting Close: Drafting the Essay
Generating Ideas
Revising a Draft
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Reviewing the Basics
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Chapter 13¿¿¿¿¿ Reading and Writing about Essays
¿¿¿¿ Types of Essays
¿¿¿¿ The Essayist’s Persona
¿¿¿¿ Voice
¿¿¿¿ Tone
¿¿¿¿ Prewriting: Identifying the Topic and Thesis
Brent Staples¿•¿Black Men and Public Space
¿¿¿¿ Summary and Analysis
¿¿¿¿ Preparing a Summary
¿¿¿¿ Stating the Thesis of an Essay
¿¿¿¿ Drafting a Summary
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Essays
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Essays for Analysis
Langston Hughes¿•¿Salvation
Laura Vanderkam¿•¿Hookups Starve the Soul
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Chapter 14¿¿Reading and Writing about Stories
¿¿¿¿ Stories True and False
Grace Paley¿•¿Samuel
¿¿¿¿ Elements of Fiction
¿¿¿¿ Plot and Character
¿¿¿¿ Foreshadowing
¿¿¿¿ Setting and Atmosphere
¿¿¿¿ Symbolism
¿¿¿¿ Narrative Point of View
¿¿¿¿ Style and Point of View
¿¿¿¿Theme
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Stories
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Stories for Analysis
Diana Chang¿•¿The Oriental Contingent
Gish Jen¿•¿Who’s Irish?
Ron Wallace• Worry
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Chapter 15¿¿Thinking Critically: A Case Study about Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor¿•¿A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor¿•¿Revelation¿
¿¿¿¿ Remarks from Essays and Letters¿
¿¿¿¿ From “The Fiction Writer and His Country”
¿¿¿¿ From “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
¿¿¿¿ From “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
¿¿¿¿ From “Writing Short Stories”
¿¿¿ On Interpreting “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
¿¿¿ “A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable”
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Chapter¿ 16¿¿¿¿¿¿ Graphic Ficition***
¿¿¿¿ Letters and Pictures***
Grant Wood • “Death on¿ the Ridge Roasd”***
¿¿¿¿ Reading an Image: A Short Story Told in One Panel***
Tony¿ Carrillo •¿ “F Minus”***
¿¿¿¿ A Second Example of Reading Images: A Story Told in Sequential¿ Panels***
Art Spiegelman • “Nature vs. Nurture”***
Will Eisner • “Hamlet on a Rooftop”***
R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz • “A Hunger Artist” ***
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Chapter 17¿¿¿¿¿¿ Reading and Writing about Plays
¿¿¿¿ Types of Plays:¿Tragedy and¿Comedy
¿¿¿¿ Elements of Drama
¿¿¿¿ Theme
¿¿¿¿ Plot
¿¿¿¿ Gestures
¿¿¿¿ Setting
¿¿¿¿ Characterization and Motivation
¿¿¿¿ Organizing an Analysis of a Character
¿¿¿¿ First Draft
¿¿¿¿ Revised Draft¿
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Plays
¿¿¿¿ Thinking about a Filmed Version of a Play
¿¿¿¿ Getting Ready to Write
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Writing about a Filmed Play
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Plays for Analysis
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
David Ives¿•¿Sure Thing***
¿¿¿¿ A Note on Greek Tragedy
Sophocles¿•¿Oedipus Rex***
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Chapter 18¿¿¿¿¿¿ Reading and Writing about Poems
¿¿¿¿ Elements of Poetry
¿¿¿¿ The Speaker and the Poet
Emily Dickinson¿•¿I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Wild Nights—Wild Nights
¿¿¿¿ The Language of Poetry: Diction and Tone
William Shakespeare¿•¿Sonnet 146 (Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth)¿
¿¿¿¿ Writing about the Speaker
Robert Frost¿•¿The Telephone
¿¿¿¿ Journal Entries
¿¿¿¿ Figurative Language
William Shakespeare¿•¿Sonnet 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun)
Dana Gioia¿•¿Money
Robert Frost¿•¿The Hardship of Accounting
Anonymous¿•¿Thirty Days Hath September
¿¿¿¿ Imagery and Symbolism
Edmund Waller¿•¿Song (Go, lovely rose)
William Blake¿•¿The Sick Rose
¿¿¿¿ Verbal Irony and Paradox
¿¿¿¿ Structure
Robert Herrick¿•¿Upon Julia’s Clothes
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Herrick’s Julia, Julia’s Herrick”
¿¿¿¿ The Argument Analyzed
¿¿¿¿ Explication
¿¿¿¿ An Example
William Butler Yeats¿•¿The Balloon of the Mind
¿¿¿¿ Annotations and Journal Entries
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Explication of W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Balloon of the Mind’”¿
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Explication
¿¿¿¿ Rhythm and Versification: A Glossary for Reference
¿¿¿¿ Meter
¿¿¿¿ Patterns of Sound
¿¿¿¿ Stanzaic Patterns
Billy Collins¿•¿Sonnet
¿¿¿¿ Blank Verse and Free Verse
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Poems
¿¿¿¿ Your Turn: Poems about People
Robert Browning¿•¿My Last Duchess
E. E. Cummings¿•¿anyone lived in a pretty how town
Sylvia Plath¿•¿Daddy
Gwendolyn Brooks¿•¿We Real Cool
Etheridge Knight¿•¿For Malcolm, a Year After
Anne Sexton¿•¿Her Kind
James Wright¿•¿Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
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Chapter 19¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Thinking Critically about Poems: Two Case Studies
A Case Study about Emily Dickinson¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿The Soul selects her own Society¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿These are the days when Birds come back¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Papa above!¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿There’s a certain Slant of light¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿This World is not Conclusion¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿I got so I could hear his name—¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Those—dying, then¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Apparently with no surprise¿
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Tell all the Truth but tell it slant¿
¿¿¿¿ A Sample Argument by a Student: “Religion and Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson”¿
A Case Study on Comparing Poems and Pictures¿
¿¿¿¿ Word and Image
Jane Flanders¿•¿Van Gogh’s Bed
William Carlos Williams¿•¿The Great Figure
Adrienne Rich¿•¿Mourning Picture
Cathy Song¿•¿Beauty and Sadness
Mary Jo Salter¿•¿The Rebirth of Venus
Anne Sexton¿•¿The Starry Night
W. H. Auden¿•¿Musée des Beaux Arts
X. J. Kennedy¿•¿Nude Descending a Staircase
Greg Pape¿•¿American Flamingo
Carl Phillips¿•¿Luncheon on the Grass
John Updike¿•¿Before the Mirror
Wislawa Szymborska¿•¿Brueghel’s Two Monkeys
¿¿¿¿ A Sample Argument by a Student: “Two Ways of Looking at a Starry Night”
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Part III¿¿¿¿¿ Standing Back: A Thematic Anthology
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Chapter 20¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The World Around Us
Essays¿¿
Louise Erdrich, Ringo’s Gold***
BIll McKibben¿•¿Now or Never
Stories¿¿
Aesop¿•¿The Ant and the Grasshopper
Aesop¿•¿The North Wind and the Sun
Jack London¿•¿To Build a Fire
Sarah Orne Jewett¿•¿A White Heron
Patricia Grace• Butterflies***
Poems¿¿
Matthew Arnold¿•¿In Harmony with Nature
Thomas Hardy¿•¿Transformations
John Keats¿•¿To Autumn
Gerard Manley Hopkins¿•¿God’s Grandeur
Walt Whitman¿•¿A Noiseless Patient Spider
Emily Dickinson¿•¿“Nature” is what we see
Emily Dickinson¿•¿A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Joy Harjo¿• Vision ***
Mary Oliver¿• The Black Walnut Tree***
Kay Ryan • Turtle¿¿***
Thinking Critically: Case Study about Robert Frost
Robert Frost¿•¿The Pasture
Robert Frost¿•¿Mowing
Robert Frost¿•¿The Wood-Pile
Robert Frost¿•¿The Oven Bird
Robert Frost¿•¿The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Robert Frost¿•¿The Most of It
Robert Frost • Design
Robert Frost on Poetry¿¿
Robert Frost¿•¿The Figure a Poem Makes
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Chapter 21¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Journeys
Essays¿¿
Joan Didion¿•¿On Going Home
Montesquieu¿•¿Persian Letters
Stories¿¿
Nathaniel Hawthorne¿•¿Young Goodman Brown
Eudora Welty¿•¿A Worn Path
Toni Cade Bambara¿•¿The Lesson
Amy Hempel¿•¿Today Will Be a Quiet Day
James Joyce¿•¿Eveline
Poems¿¿
John Keats¿•¿On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Percy Bysshe Shelley¿•¿Ozymandias
Alfred, Lord Tennyson¿•¿Ulysses
Countee Cullen¿•¿Incident
William Stafford¿•¿Traveling Through the Dark
Adrienne Rich¿•¿Diving into the Wreck¿
Derek Walcott¿•¿A Far Cry from Africa
Sherman Alexie¿•¿On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
William Butler Yeats¿•¿Sailing to Byzantium
Christina Rossetti¿•¿Uphill
Emily Dickinson¿•¿Because I could not stop for Death
A. E. Housman • To an Athlete Dying Young
A Note on Spirituals***
Anonymous • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot***
Anonymous • Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel***
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Chapter 22¿¿¿¿ ¿¿Love and Hate¿
Essay¿¿
Judith Ortiz Cofer¿•¿I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened
Stories¿¿
Ernest Hemingway¿•¿Cat in the Rain
¿¿¿¿ A Student’s Notes and Journal Entries on “Cat in the Rain”
¿¿¿¿ Asking Questions about a Story
¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Hemingway’s American Wife”
¿¿¿¿ A Second Example: An Essay Drawing on Related Material in the Chapter
¿¿¿¿ A Sample Essay by a Student: “Hemingway’s Unhappy Lovers”
Zora Neale Hurston¿•¿Sweat
Raymond Carver¿•¿Cathedral
Poems¿¿
Anonymous¿•¿Western Wind
Christopher Marlowe¿•¿The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh¿•¿The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
John Donne¿•¿The Bait
William Shakespeare¿•¿Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes)
William Shakespeare¿•¿Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)
John Donne¿•¿A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Andrew Marvell¿•¿To His Coy Mistress
Edna St. Vincent Millay¿•¿Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Robert Frost¿•¿The Silken Tent
Robert Pack¿•¿The Frog Prince
Nikki Giovanni¿•¿Love in Place
Play¿¿
Terrence McNally¿•¿Andre’s Mother
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Chapter 23¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Making Men and Women
Essays¿¿
Steven Doloff¿•¿The Opposite Sex
Gretel Ehrlich¿•¿About Men
Stories¿¿
Charlotte Perkins Gilman¿•¿The Yellow Wallpaper
Richard Wright¿•¿The Man Who Was Almost a Man¿
John Updike • Oliver’s Evolution¿ ***
Poems¿¿
Anonymous¿•¿What Are Little Boys Made Of
Anonymous¿•¿Higamus, Hogamus
Dorothy Parker¿•¿General Review of the Sex Situation
Louise Bogan¿•¿Women
Rita Dove¿•¿Daystar
Theodore Roethke¿•¿My Papa’s Waltz
Sharon Olds¿•¿Rites of Passage
Frank O’Hara¿•¿Homosexuality
Julia Alvarez¿•¿Woman’s Work
Marge Piercy¿•¿Barbie Doll
Play¿¿
Henrik Ibsen¿•¿A Doll’s House
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Chapter 24¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Innocence and Experience
Essay¿¿
George Orwell¿•¿Shooting an Elephant
Stories¿¿
Hans Christian Andersen¿•¿The Emperor’s New Clothes
James Joyce¿•¿Araby
Isaac Bashevis Singer¿•¿The Son from America
Ha Jin • Love in the Air***
ZZ Packer • Brownies***
Poems¿¿
William Blake¿•¿Infant Joy
William Blake¿•¿Infant Sorrow
William Blake¿•¿The Echoing Green
William Blake¿•¿The Lamb
William Blake¿•¿The Tyger
Gerard Manley Hopkins¿•¿Spring and Fall
E. E. Cummings¿•¿in Just-
Louise Glück¿•¿The School Children
Louise Glück¿•¿Gretel in Darkness
Linda Pastan • Ethics
Play¿¿
Thinking Critically: A Case Study about Shakespeare’s Hamlet
¿¿¿¿ A Note on the Elizabethan Theater
¿¿¿¿ A Note on Hamlet on the Stage¿
¿¿¿¿ A Note on the Text of Hamlet¿
William Shakespeare¿•¿The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Criticism
¿¿¿¿ Anne Barton¿•¿The Promulgation of Confusion
¿¿¿¿ Stanley Wells¿•¿On the First Soliloquy
¿¿¿¿ Elaine Showalter¿•¿Representing Ophelia
¿¿¿¿ Bernice W. Kliman¿•¿The BBC Hamlet: A Television Production
¿¿¿¿ Will Saretta¿•¿Branagh’s Film of Hamlet
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Chapter 25¿¿¿¿¿ All in a Day’s Work***
Essays
Barbara Ehrenreich • Wal-Mart Orientation Program***
Stories
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Jokes about Lines of Work***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Jokes as Short Stories***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The Role of Stereotypes***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Four Doctors Went Hunting***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ A Businessman Interviewed Job Candidates***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The Absent-Minded Professor***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ An American Businessman in Mexico***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Two New Yorkers on Vacation Are Hunting in Maine***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The Detective and the Logical Doctor***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The Heart Surgeon and the Mechanic***
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ The Rich Businessman at the Business School Commencement***
Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm • Mother Holle***
Will Eisner • The Day I Became a Professional***
Daniel Orozco¿¿ Orientation
John Updike • A & P
Lorrie Moore¿ How to Become a Writer
Poems
William Wordsworth • The Solitary Reaper
Walt Whitman • I hear America Singing
Carl Sandburg • Chicago
Gary Snyder • Hay for the Horses
Robert Hayden • Those Winter Sundays
Seamus Heaney • Digging
Marge Piercy • To be of use
Marge Piercy • The Secretary Chant
John Updike • Ex-Basketball Player¿
Plays
Jane Martin• Rodeo
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman***
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Chapter 26¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Identity in America
Essays¿¿
Anna Lisa Raya¿•¿It’s Hard Enough Being Me
Andrew Lam¿•¿Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone?
Stories¿¿
Amy Tan¿•¿Two Kinds
Alice Walker¿•¿Everyday Use
Poems¿¿
Emma Lazarus¿•¿The New Colossus
Thomas Bailey Aldrich¿•¿The Unguarded Gates
Joseph Bruchac III¿•¿Ellis Island
Aurora Levins Morales¿•¿Child of the Americas
Gloria Anzaldúa¿•¿To Live in the Borderlands Means You
Jimmy Santiago Baca¿•¿So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans
Langston Hughes¿•¿Theme for English B
Pat Parker¿•¿For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to be my friend
Mitsuye Yamada¿•¿To the Lady
Nila northSun¿•¿Moving Camp Too Far
Plays¿¿
Luis Valdez¿•¿Los Vendidos
Lorraine Hansberry¿•¿A Raisin in the Sun
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Chapter 27¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿American Dreams and Nightmares
Essays¿¿
Chief Seattle¿•¿My People
Elizabeth Cady Stanton¿•¿Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Abraham Lincoln•Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery***
Studs Terkel¿•¿Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dream
Stories
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.¿•¿Harrison Bergeron
Langston Hughes¿•¿One Friday Morning
William Carlos Williams¿•¿The Use of Force
Shirley Jackson¿•¿The Lottery
Grace Paley¿•¿A Man Told Me the Story of His Life
Tim O’Brien¿•¿The Things They Carried
Sherman Alexie¿•¿The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven***
Amy Sterling¿Casil¿•Perfect Stranger***
Ralph Ellison¿•Battle Royal
Poems¿¿
Robert Hayden¿•¿Frederick Douglass
Lorna Dee Cervantes¿•¿Refugee Ship
Edwin Arlington Robinson¿•¿Richard Cory
W. H. Auden¿•¿The Unknown Citizen
Allen Ginsberg¿•¿A Supermarket in California
Marge Piercy¿•¿What’s that Smell in the Kitchen?
Yusef Komunyakaa¿•¿Facing It
Billy Collins¿•¿The Names
Gwendolyn Brooks¿•¿The Bean Eaters
Dorothy Parker¿•¿Résumé
Plays¿¿
Tennessee Williams¿•¿The Glass Menagerie
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Chapter 28¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Law and Disorder
Essays¿¿
Zora Neale Hurston¿•¿A Conflict of Interest
Martin Luther King Jr.¿•¿Letter from Birmingham Jail
Stories
Chinua Achebe•Civil Peace¿
Elizabeth Bishop¿•¿The Hanging of the Mouse
Ursula K. Le Guin¿•¿The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
William Faulkner¿•¿Barn Burning
Tobias Woolf•Powder
Poems¿¿
Anonymous¿•¿Birmingham Jail
A. E. Housman¿•¿The Carpenter’s Son
A. E. Housman¿•¿Oh who is that young sinner
Claude McKay¿•¿If We Must Die
Jimmy Santiago Baca¿•¿Cloudy Day
Carolyn Forché¿•¿The Colonel
Plays
Billy Goda• No Crime***
Sophocles•Antigone¿
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Chapter 29 ¿¿¿¿¿ Worlds beyond Worlds***
Essay
Stephen King •¿Why We Crave Horror Movies***
Stories
Elizabeth Bowen•The Demon Lover***
Gabriel García-Márquez• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Arthur C. Clarke•Nine Billion Names of God
Poems
A Note on Ballads***
Anonymous•The Demon Lover***
Anonymous•The Wife of Usher's Well***
John Keats• La belle dame sans merci
A. E. Housman• Is my team ploughing***
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Appendix A¿¿¿¿¿ Writing about Literature: An Overview of Critical Strategies¿
Appendix B¿¿¿¿ ¿Remarks About Manuscript Form
Appendix C¿¿¿¿ ¿How Much Do You Know about Citing Sources?¿ A Quiz with Answers
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Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
Index of Terms¿
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