Week Ahead & Class Update

HOMEWORK DUE NEXT WEEK

By next Wednesday, September 30, read ONE of these stories:

"Alma" by Junot Diaz (here for link online)

"Gleason" by Louise Erdrich (here for link online)

"Ghosts" by Edwidge Danticat (here for link online)

"Going to Meet the Man" by James Baldwin (here for link online)
For this link you will need to click on it and then when you reach the website, scroll down until you see the title of the story.

You will have an exam solely on the short story you have chosen on Thursday, October 1
Whichever story you choose, you will be asked to identify, discuss and support with evidence:

1.  How the short story show the course theme "into the light."
2.  How a character in the short story is like the cave prisoner who is unshackled, exposed to the light (the truth) but is distressed by what he discovers
3.  Your own original insights and fresh ideas to make connections between the "Allegory fo the Cave" and the short story