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Essay Instructions: Choose any character from each of any three stories, or personae in essays and poetry we’ve read so far. Consider five adjectives to describe each character/persona, then write about how the author fulfills these character descriptions, considering one of the following: voice, style, structure. The sources are all "from" Making Literature Matter 3rd ed. So no outside sources are needed. Just the stories/poems themselves.

Choose from the following:
Walker “Everyday Use”
O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Welty, “A Visit of Charity”
Petry “Like A Winding Sheet”
bell hooks “Inspired Eccentricity”
Fort “We Did Not Fear the Father”
Levine “What Work Is”
Komunyakaa “Blackberries”
Hughes “Theme for English B”
Auden “The Unknown Citizen”
Komunyakaa “Facing It"
Frost “After Apple-Picking”
Tan “Two Kinds”
hooks, “Spirit”
Dove, “Parsley”
Hughes “Let America Be America Again”
Mukherjee “Management of Grief”
Silko “Yellow Woman”
Gilman “ The Yellow Wallpaper"
Kingston “No Name Woman”

Essay Instructions: The composition I have been assigned is to be a comparison and/or contrast paper about two stories we've read for class. We may write a paper that only compares, only contrasts, or does both. We may choose either the block or alternating method of development; just be sure to provide adequate transitions between- and within- divisions. The paper should be 750 words in length. Be sure to have a lead and a thesis statement in the introduction as well as the names of both stories and authors.
Short Stories we have read are:
A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty
The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
The Rich Brother by Tobias Wolfe
Two Kinds by Amy Tan
My Son, the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen