1.Excerpts from “House on Mango Street” https://mrperrysclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/the-house-on-mango-street.pdf pp 3-42 and 90-109
2.Adichie “A Private Experience” and “Apollo” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-short-story
- “No Name Woman” https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/nicole.zaza/engl1301/1301-readings/no-name-woman-by-maxine-hong-kingston/view
4.“Sweetness” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/sweetness-2
5.“The Search Engine” by Sherman Alexie
6.Videos: Ted talk on Dangers of a Single Story; Bill Moyers interview of Sherman Alexie
Paper topics:
Use any of the following themes – storytelling, challenging traditional roles or heroism – across any of the four stories above and write a critical analysis. The paper must have a clear thesis which is arguable and add a new dimension to your discussion.
You can answer specific questions like these, or you can set up your own framework--
1, How does storytelling help us to understand better the quest of the narrators? At what point are the stories being narrated and why is the story important to the narrator?