way.” Modern writers often speak of people native to violence. Although these three stories disproves that mankind is born evil, in Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square” says the white narrator does not like the racism but will approve of it because his family and the environment revolved around him is indeed racist. “Invisible Man” also by Ralph Ellison, the Invisible man was always seeing the bright side of everything but as he grew older nobody noticed him so he turned evil, he understood
readings “A Party Down At The Square” by Ralph Ellison, “wishes for my sons” by Lucille Clifton, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and Trifles by Susan Glaspell are just some few examples of how society oppresses the weak. The issue of society oppressing the weak is by the way they afflicted pain on people that they think is not strong mentally. Even in today’s society we can see how society oppresses the weak by the way the rich looks down on the poor. In the short story “A Party Down The Square”
their happiness or their misery, but only that person can control their own karma. There are many examples of this principle: Zora Hurston’s 1926 short story “Sweat,” Guy Maupassant’s 1884 short story “Mother Savage,” and Ralph Ellison’s 1997 short story “A Party Down at the Square.” These works of literature demonstrate that whatever you do will eventually come back to you, whether it be good or bad. “Sweat” is a story about Delia Jones, a black washwoman who seeks revenge on her husband Sykes for
Instructor’s Resource Guide to accompany Literature: Craft & Voice Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse Prepared by Thomas M. Kitts St. John’s University, NY A Note to Instructors In the following pages, I offer responses to works, approaches for presentation, responses to questions in the text, and possible writing assignments. I am sure some of my ideas will be more helpful than others, and some will be different from yours and your students’. Please
Table of Contents: Unit 1: Early Exploration and Colonization p. 1-5 Unit 2: The American Revolution and Confederation p. 6-10 Unit 3: The First Presidents p. 11-15 Unit 4: Coming of the Civil War p. 16-18 Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction p. 19-21 Unit 6: The West and the Industrial Revolution p. 22-23 Unit 7: Progressivism p. 24-26 Unit 8: Imperialism and WWI p. 27-28 Unit 9: Depression, New Deal, and WWII
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Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Age of Innocence Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front As You Like It The Ballad of the Sad Café Beloved Beowulf Black Boy The Bluest Eye The Canterbury Tales Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 The Chronicles of Narnia The Color Purple Crime and Punishment The Crucible Darkness at Noon Death of a Salesman The Death of Artemio Cruz Don Quixote Emerson’s