Sometimes I can see the future stretched out in front of me—just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me."—Lorraine Hansberry Check out the Additional Questions, Hot Links, Internet Activities, and Self-Tests for this unit using the navigation bar at the left. |
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PART 1: LITERATURE CONFRONTS THE EVERYDAY | |||
| Flannery O'Connor | The Life You Save May Be Your Own | Short Story | 972 |
| Bernard Malamud | The First Seven Years | Short Story | 988 |
| John Updike | The Brown Chest | Short Story | 1002 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Robert Lowell | Hawthorne | Poem | 1014 |
| Robert Penn Warren | Gold Glade | Poem | 1017 |
| William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark | Poem | 1019 |
| Theodore Roethke | The Light Comes Brighter | Poem | 1021 |
| The Adamant | Poem | 1022 | |
| Anne Tyler | Average Waves in Unprotected Waters | Short Story | 1028 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| N. Scott Momaday | from The Names | Nonfiction | 1042 |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | Mint Snowball | Nonfiction | 1047 |
| Joy Harjo | Suspended | Nonfiction | 1049 |
| Alice Walker | Everyday Use | Short Story | 1056 |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | from The Woman Warrior | Nonfiction | 1070 |
| Julia Alvarez | Antojos | Short Story | 1082 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Lorna Dee Cervantes | Freeway 280 | Poem | 1098 |
| Martín Espada | Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper | Poem | 1100 |
| Diana Chang | Most Satisfied by Snow | Poem | 1101 |
| Simon Ortiz | Hunger in New York City | Poem | 1102 |
| Garret Hongo | What For | Poem | 1103 |
PART 2: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: ESSAY | |||
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Carson McCullers | from The Mortgaged Heart | Nonfiction | 1112 |
| William Safire | Onomatopoeia | Nonfiction | 1115 |
| Ian Frazier | Coyote v. Acme | Nonfiction | 1118 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Sandra Cisneros | Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday | Nonfiction | 1128 |
| Rita Dove | For the Love of Books | Nonfiction | 1133 |
| Amy Tan | Mother Tongue | Nonfiction | 1136 |
PART 3: SOCIAL PROTEST | |||
| James Baldwin | The Rockpile | Short Story | 1148 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| John Hersey | from Hiroshima | Nonfiction | 1162 |
| Randall Jarrell | Losses | Poem | 1173 |
| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | Poem | 1174 | |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Sylvia Plath | Mirror | Poem | 1180 |
| Adrienne Rich | In a Classroom | Poem | 1181 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | The Explorer | Poem | 1182 |
| Robert Hayden | Frederick Douglass | Poem | 1183 |
| Runagate Runagate | Poem | 1184 | |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Colleen McElroy | For My Children | Poem | 1192 |
| Louise Erdrich | Bidwell Ghost | Poem | 1195 |
| E. L. Doctorow | The Writer in the Family | Short Story | 1202 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Yusef Komunyakaa | Camouflaging the Chimera | Poem | 1220 |
| Tim O'Brien | Ambush from The Things They Carried | Short Story | 1222 |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible | Drama | |
| Act I | 1233 | ||
| Act II | 1267 | ||
| Act III | 1291 | ||
| Act IV | 1319 | ||