only 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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detrimental disappointment. Ironically‚ the last woman on mars was the complete opposite of Walter’s dream woman‚ Walter kept building an unrealistic‚perfect image of Genevieve in his mind of what Genevieve only to be disappointed upon first meeting her. “ Her voice was still soft and cool and sweet‚ as it had been on the phone. But when he opened his eyes and looked at her...he backed up”. Walter expected an exact copy of the Genevieve he had built in his imagination and was so consumed with the thought
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Belonging occurs when individuals understand the people and the world around them. How is this evident in two of the texts you have studied? Belonging‚ that is‚ the connection an individual feels to the world he or she inhabits often comes down to the specific factors and forces that shape their experience. In the text The Secret River‚ author Kate Grenville illuminates a number of key issues in regard to belonging‚ none of these more poignant that place‚ location and locus often functions as a
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in a 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
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both short stories‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “Uncle Marcos” by Isabel Allende‚ they dream about different situations happening to them that would not happen in their regular life. Mitty always imagined himself as different people‚ sharing Mitty’s identity‚ doing different and more exciting jobs than the one he had currently. Marcos‚ in an opposing situation‚ imagined flying away in his “bird” over the city far away. Both “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “Uncle Marcos”
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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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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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connects 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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