Essay #3) An academic argument presenting your research questions, analysis, and contentions about two short stories from the Reading List #3 below. Consider what is at work in the production of the text(s), both in terms of historical context and the writer’s particular agenda and intent. Possible lenses to evaluate your text(s): politics, economics, race, gender, religion, law, technology, globalization, or rhetorical analysis. Find, utilize, and cite two academic secondary sources minimum to deepen your analysis and authority.
*3-4 pages / double-spaced / 12 pt. font / four MLA formatted quotes minimum / thesis statement / original title / MLA heading and works cited
Flannery O’Connor- “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/goodman.html
Philip Roth- “Defender of the Faith”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/03/14/defender-of-the-faith
Alice Walker- “Everyday Use”
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html or PDF File for “Everyday Use”
Raymond Carver- “Cathedral”
http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf
George Saunders- “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”
Couldn’t seem to find a free link (copy) for this short story
Jhumpa Lahiri- ” Sexy”
https://bookersblogdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sexy-by-jhumpa-lahiri_bookers.pdf
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