Young Goodman Brown
Below, I have listed several links to short stories that I believe will be good options for your research paper. You should be able to find a number of critical sources on each of these, and most are rich with themes and symbols.
However, you are not limited to the stories listed below. You may use another work of literature, including a play or poem. If you select something that does not appear on the list below, you must get approval from me before proceeding, so let me know as soon as possible.
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/41feb/wornpath.htm
A Worn Path by Eudora Welty is about an elderly black woman who must make a difficult journey from her rural home to the city, dealing with racism and rough terrain, to get medicine for her sick grandson.
2. http://www.usfca.edu/jco/whereareyougoing/
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates is about a young defiant girl who finds herself pressured into a dangerous situation with an older stranger..
3. http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man who lived a wild, alcohol fueled life in Paris, but who lost everything when the stock market crashed. He is returning now to attempt to regain custody of his daughter after attempting to piece his life back together.
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• 4. http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpaper/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html
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• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a woman who is diagnosed with “nervous disorder” and prescribed bed rest. However, the longer she remains isolated in her room, the more her mind wanders until she slips into insanity.
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• 5. http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/158/
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• Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about a young, newly married Puritan man who leaves his wife behind to go explore his darker side. Along the way, he sees the supposedly pure members of his Puritan community in the light of their sins and has a crisis of faith.
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• 6. http://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%206710/Good%20Country%20People.pdf
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• Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor is about a woman who is angry at the world because of her illness and her artificial leg. Because she feels above religion and better than everyone around her, she decides to seduce a naive young Bible salesman, but finds out that she is perhaps more naive than the simple minded country folk she so despises.
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DISCUSSION
Discuss: DUE MARCH 29 10PM
1. What work of literature did you choose and why?
2. What aspect of the work will you be researching?
3. What concerns do you have about this assignment?
DUE March 30. 1 or 2 paragraph for each questions is fine. you must respond to 2 other students, and agree, or disagree with their post. So the sooner I get the original discussion, sooner you’ll have time to respond to 2 students. Because I can’t see other posts before I submit mine. In your responses, write what you found interesting in someone’s posting. Develop your ideas to ten sentences or more. You can agree, disagree, or expand on the thoughts posted by your peers. You can ask questions, but try to answer your own questions when you do.
