Writing Homework Help

Evaluate the stories on the basis of themes. Think about parent/child relationships, male/female relationships, image vs. reality, or any other theme that you can support. Devise a clearly focused thesis in which you find a common thread among these works. Give your essay a title. You must reference at least two short stories, a poem, and the play. This essay must contain no fewer than 500 words and must be written in your best writing style. This is not a research paper and should be written from your own knowledge and analysis of the works we have read. Include short quotes from the works in quotation marks followed by in-text citations using the author’s last name and page number to reference their location. Your Works Cited list will include all the primary sources you have cited.

Poems: 1) E.E. Cummings’ “in Just-” 2)E.E. Cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town” 3)Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” 4)Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” … 5)Robert Frost’s “Out, Out–“

Short stories:

1. Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

2. Neil Gaiman’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”

3. William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

4. John Updike’s “A&P”

5. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”

6. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

7. Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”

1) Play: Susan Glaspell’s Trifles