Write five short answer essays. Answers will be well-developed, focused, original, and polished. Each answer should be one to two well-developed paragraphs.
Q1:What is Raymond Carver’s “Cathdral” about? What are its themes? In your answer, you might discuss how the characters and the setting help to demonstrate the theme.
link: https://nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/6/carver/cathedral.htm
Q2: What devices does Poe use to heighten the suspense in “The Cask of Amontillado”?
link: https://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/cask.html
Q3: What do the grasshopper and the bell cricket symbolize in Kawabata’s short story?
link: https://merespace.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/the-grasshopper-and-the-bell-cricket/
Q4: Martín Espada claims that his occasional poem is about Frederick Douglass rather than President Obama. Why, according to the poem, was the election of Obama both an especially good occasion for remembering Douglass and itself an occasion worth commemorating in a poem? What and who exactly are commemorated?
Q5: In Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays,” why does the “Sundays too” (rather than say, “On Sundays”)? What are the “austere and lonely offices” to which the poem’s final line refers?