following short stories: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin‚ “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber‚ or "The Lottery‚" by Shirley Jackson. (All of the stories can be found in Explorations: An Anthology of American Literature - Volume C.) In writing about a literary character‚ you should try to describe the character’s major trait or traits. As in life‚ characters may be lazy or ambitious‚ adventurous or timid. The appearance of a character is also
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two of the works within your selected theme. •Race / Ethnicity ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) ◦The Welcome Table (Walker) ◦What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (Smith) ◦Child of the Americas (Morales) •Gender Roles / Marriage ◦The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) ◦The Story of an Hour (Chopin) ◦The Necklace (de Mauppassant) ◦The Proposal (Chekhov) ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) •Creativity / The Creative Process ◦Poetry (Neruda) ◦Constantly Risking Absurdity
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Final Paper Rough Draft Review the Final Paper instructions in Week Five of this course. Then‚ write a rough draft for your Final Paper‚ in which you compare and contrast two literary works from this course that share the same theme (using the “Themes & Corresponding Works” list in the Week Five Final Paper instructions‚ as a guide). The paper should be organized around your thesis (argument)‚ which is the main point of the entire essay. When developing a thesis for a comparative paper
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The Unicorn in the Garden The story ‘Unicorn in the Garden’ has two characters which revolve around the event of sighting a Unicorn in the garden by the husband. The story portraits the husband as a mild characterised person and the wife as mean spirited. At first the husband’s character comes to the reader as somewhat not in touch with reality. Then it further progresses to the wife’s character and portraits the wife as demeaning towards the husband. The story starts with highly imaginable and
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Gay Marriage Kizzy Jones SOC120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Daniel Beteta December 17‚ 2012 Gay Marriage Gay marriages are a worldwide issue of should it be allowed or not in today’s societies and has been a topic for many years. Gay marriage is a marriage between two people of same sex or gender. There are states and countries that are against just as well as for same sex marriage. It has been a problem about whether same sex couples should be able to marry since 1971
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Theme and corresponding works in the short stories Secret Life of Walter Mitty and I’m Going! Benjamin McDonald Ashford University English 125 Professor Smith August 24‚ 2012 Gender roles and marriage have been stereotyped for years. The husband earned a living while the woman stayed home did the cooking and laundry and raised the kids. Today‚ however‚ roles have reversed in many households. The husbands stay home and take care of the children‚ do the cooking‚ and run the
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characters from‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” by James Thurber and‚ “Uncle Marcos‚” by Isabel Allende. The main character’s ‚ Uncle Marcos and Walter Mitty‚ of both stories have lots to learn from one another‚ from expressing their actions in real life to just imagining them for their own pleasure the two men are alike and different in many ways. Walter Mitty and Uncle Marcos could’ve easily influenced each other and learned tons from one another’s ideas. “Walter Mitty looked at the pictures
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Jurrell D. Harrison The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Story of an Hour Introduction to Literature Professor Daw Monday 12th December 2011 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ written by James Thurber (1939) and the Story of an Hour written by Chopin (1894) are the two literary works that will be compared and contrasted in this paper. Both these pieces depict some of the trials and tribulations of a union in marriage‚ such as the want of independence and excitement; experiences
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baffling and alien world where aggressive women threatened the masculine identity. His show of fear toward women where the little man prevails and is forced to fight back is also seen in many of Thurber?s stories‚ and especially in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Joyce 410). Both of the protagonists in this two stories struggle to maintain a sense of self-value with the use of imagination that creates a fantasy. In The Catbird Seat the protagonist attentively defeats his opponent with dullness and
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!! Walter Mitty: Finding Sean Most people are like Walter- Simple‚ average‚ a grey piece of paper‚ fitting in the urban office life seamlessly‚ searching for romance and adventure. The movie‚ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ is an action filled comedy-drama movie; filmed in Greenland‚ Ice land‚ Afghanistan and New York City‚ full of beautiful‚ awe inspiring sceneries as Walter Mitty does his best to find the photographer of Time magazine covers‚ Sean‚ becoming more than he was before. Walter Mitty
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