Write a three to five page (TYPED) comparison of two RELATED stories.
Possible Comparison Topics (Pick only one topic!):
Two related binary stories, chose one pair and 3-5 page unique assignment.
Failed last attempt and professor notes: “I am not sure you saw the directions for the assignment. This essay is supposed to compare TWO short stories. Right now, this is a lengthy summary of one story. The actual essay should avoid summarizing and instead explore similarities between two stories. Feel free to write me for more guidance and assistance on this, but you need to resubmit the correct assignment.”
Please consider that direction as well. Professor message.
1. Narrative detail and structural complexity in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (p. 115) and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (p. 308)?
2. The psychology of violence in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (p. 115) and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (p. 412)?
3. Marginalized people in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (p. 287) and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (p. 308)?
4. Problematic relationships in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (p. 287) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark” (p. 219)?
5. The art of saying a lot with only a few words in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (p. 122) and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (p. 287)?
6. The use of irony in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (p. 287) and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (p. 308)?
7. Relationships in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (p, 122) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark” (p. 219)?
9. The truths we fail to grasp in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (p. 362) and John Updike’s “A & P”?
10. The depiction of villages and towns in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (p. 362) and in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?
10. Being trapped in a “dead-end” reality in Edwidge Danticat’s “Wall of Fire Rising’ and John Updike’s “A & P”?
11. Finding grace in places you did not expect to see it in James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” and in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard Man to Find”?
12. An original topic of your own!
