For each discussion your answer should be 4-5 lines to receive full credit on these 2 assignments.

1.Katherine Anne Porter's story "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" was a recent addition to my syllabus. What do you are the major themes of the story? And how do these themes fit the other readings for this section of the course?
The attached document are the other readings for this module.

2. In your own words, I would like you to explain what the word "modernism" means to you. How do you define it? (You can certainly use the book's definition to help form your own.)

Here is the book definition:

Modernism is a catchall term for any kind of literary production in the interwar period that deals with the modern world. Moreover narrowly , it refers to work that represents the transformation of traditional society under the pressures of modernity, and that breaks down traditional literary forms in doing so.