Write a draft on the following topics-
I. 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)
II. 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)
III. ENG125: 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)
IV. 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)
The body of your paper, which will consist of 800 to 1000 words, is to be presented in four sections as detailed below.
I. Conflict
a. Identify the conflict in the two texts you have chosen.
2. Identify the similarities and differences in the representation of the conflict in the texts.
3. Identify three literary techniques and elements that help represent this conflict.
II. Literary Techniques in [Title of First Chosen Text]
1. Explain where and how you see the three literary techniques at work in your chosen first text.
2. Provide specific examples by quoting, paraphrasing, and/orsummarizing.
3. Explain how the literary techniques/examples define and draw out this conflict.
III. Literary Techniques in [Title of Second Chosen Text]
1. Explain where and how you see the three literary techniques at work in your second chosen text.
2. Provide specific examples by quoting, paraphrasing, and/or summarizing.
3. Explain how the literary techniques define and draw out this conflict.
IV. Similarities and Differences
1. Compare and contrast the manner in which the texts address the conflict.
2. Explain if they use different and/or similar literary techniques to articulate that conflict.
3. Explain the different and/or similar resolutions of each conflict and how those resolutions were reached.