ASSIGNMENT

Choose one of the following and develop it into a supported, proven 1500 word essay. You are expected to complete research. At least two other, secondary texts are required other than the story or poem you choose. Secondary sources should be outside research material about the story or thesis you have chosen. This does not mean for you to choose other stories. You are expected to provide textual support from all of these sources and cite them correctly according to the MLA format. A work cited page is also required.

1. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of Modernist ideology. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?

2. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of a tragedy. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?

3. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of Naturalist ideology. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?

POEMS WE HAVE COVERED

2:

Jack London "To Build a Fire" (p.650), Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" (p.603)

3:

Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire" (p.1161)

4:

Eugene O'Neill "Long Day's Journey into Night" (p.862)

5:

Ernest Hemingway "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (p.1067), F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" (p.1025)

6:

Zora Neale Hurston "The Gilded Six-Bits" (p.985), Richard Wright "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (p. 1113), Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "I, Too," and "Democracy" (p1089-1094)

7:

T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (p.863) and "Journey of the Magi" (p.884)

8:

Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (p.818-821), "The Idea of Order at Key West" (p.823)