As we think about the midterm exam, which will include both short-answer and long-answer responses, let’s start to put our readings from this semester in conversation with each other. To do this, let’s start to think about interesting points of comparison, and the ways in which each of our readings exemplify the elements of fiction we read about.
In the comments, write about a theme you see connecting two texts–either through a similarity or a difference, and what is significant about that connection. Consider what elements of fiction help make this connection more meaningful. I’ve added an example in a comment below.
In addition to writing your comment, reply to classmates’ comments with ideas about other texts that fit into the connection they’ve explored. This is a great way for us to work through all of the texts we’ve encountered this semester:
Margaret Atwood, “There Was Once” 1992
Gary Parks, “Elements of Fiction”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” 1894
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” 1930
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Cottagette” 1910
— “The Yellow Wall-Paper” 1899
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” 1917
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 1835
Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” 1915
Thomas Wolfe, “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” 1935 (optional)
