List of Literary Works
For your Literary Analysis, select at least two works from the list below that share the same type(s) of conflict(s). Remember, one of them must be a short story. You can either compare two short stories, a short story and a poem, or a short story and a play.
- Short Stories
o "Country Lovers" (Gordimer, 1975)
o "Hills Like White Elephants" ( Hemingway, 1927)
o "Good Country People" (O'Connor, 1953)
o "The Things They Carried" (O'Brien, 1990)
o "No Name Woman" (Kingston, 1975)
o "Sonny's Blues" ( Baldwin, 1957)
o "Sweat" (Hurston, 1926)
o "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (Oates, 1966)
o "A Rock Trying to Be a Stone" (Troncoso, 1997)
o "Greasy Lake" (Boyle, 1985)
o "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem" (Alexie, 2003)
- Poems
o "Let America Be America Again" (Hughes, 1935)
o "What It's Like to Be a Black Girl" (Smith, 1991)
o "Child of the Americas" (Morales, 1986)
o "To Live in the Borderlands" (Anzaldua, 1987)
o "A Point West of San Bernardino" (Delgado, 2013)
o "America" (Blanco, 1998)
o "Oranges" (Soto, 1995)
o "Poetry" (Neruda, 1982)
o "Burial" (Che, 2014)
o "Ways of Talking" (Jin, 1996)
o "Bright Copper Kettles" (Seshadri, 2010)
o "Blood" (Nye, 1986)
Introduction to Literature
o "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (Thomas, 1952)
o "My Last Duchess" (Browning, 1842)
o "The Boxer" (Simon, 1968)
o "Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World" (Alexie, 2009)
o "The Raven" (Poe, 1845)
- Drama
o Macbeth (Shakespeare, 1606)
o A Midsummer's Night Dream, (Shakespeare, 1590)
o Mistaken Identity (Cooper, 2008)
o The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde, 1895).