Literature for Composition

Write a 1,000-word paper that details your reaction to one of the fiction stories you read in this week’s Learning Activity titled, Literature for Composition, Short Stories. Include the following in your paper:

• Explain the strategies you think the writer uses to convey a particular idea and what you think is the theme of the work.
• Describe how you personally relate to the theme, and include relevant quotes from the writing to support your paper.

Answer the following questions in the paper to demonstrate your active, responsive reading:

• What is one inference you may make from the story?
• What impressions did you have as you read the story the first time? Were there any particular portions of the reading that you marked as you read them the second time? Why?
• For whom do you think the author was writing this story and to what purpose?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

These are the stories to choose from below

Misery:

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1026/

 

A Rose for Emily:

http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf

 

The Yellow Wallpaper:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/literatureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

 

Araby:

http://www.teacherweb.com/NM/BosqueSchool/Cummings/Araby.pdf

 

Everyday Use:

http://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%206710/Everyday%20Use.pdf

 

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas:

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/dunnweb/rprnts.omelas.pdf