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Preface To the Instructor About the Authors Fiction Talking with Amy Tan 1. READING A STORY THE ART OF FICTION TYPES OF SHORT FICTION Sufi Legend, Death Has an Appointment in Samarra Aesop , The North Wind and the Sun Bidpai , The Tortoise and the Geese Chuang Tzu , Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm , Godfather Death PLOT THE SHORT STORY John Updike , A & P WRITING EFFECTIVELY Wilhelm Grimm on Writing , On the Nature of Fairy Tales THINKING ABOUT PLOT CHECKLIST: Writing About Plot TOPICS FOR WRITING on plot TERMS FOR REVIEW 2. POINT OF VIEW IDENTIFYING POINT OF VIEW TYPES OF NARRATORS how much does a narrator know? STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS William Faulkner , A Rose for Emily Edgar Allan Poe , The Tell-Tale Heart Eudora Welty , Why I Live at the P.O. James Baldwin , Sonny''s Blues WRITING EFFECTIVELY James Baldwin on Writing, Race and the African American Writer THINKING ABOUT POINT OF VIEW CHECKLIST: Writing About Point of View topics for writing ON POINT OF VIEW TERMS FOR REVIEW 3. CHARACTER CHARACTERIZATION MOTIVATION Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Joyce Carol Oates , Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Neil Gaiman , How to Talk to Girls at Parties Raymond Carver , Cathedral WRITING EFFECTIVELY Raymond Carver on Writing , Commonplace but Precise Language THINKING ABOUT CHARACTER CHECKLIST: Writing About Character TOPICS FOR REVIEW ON CHARACTER TERMS FOR REVIEW 4. SETTING ELEMENTS OF SETTING HISTORICAL FICTION REGIONALISM NATURALISM Kate Chopin , The Storm Jack London, To Build a Fire ZZ Packer , Brownies Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets WRITING EFFECTIVELY Amy Tan on Writing , Developing a Setting THINKING ABOUT SETTING CHECKLIST: Writing About Setting TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SETTING TERMS FOR REVIEW 5. TONE AND STYLE TONE STYLE DICTION Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place William Faulkner , Barn Burning IRONY O. Henry , The Gift of the Magi Alice Munro , How I Met My Husband WRITING EFFECTIVELY Ernest Hemingway on Writing, The Direct Style THINKING ABOUT TONE AND STYLE CHECKLIST: Writing About Tone and Style TOPICS FOR WRITING ON TONE AND STYLE TERMS FOR REVIEW 6. THEME PLOT VERSUS THEME SUMMARIZING THE THEME FINDING THE THEME Stephen Crane , The Open Boat Sandra Cisneros , The House on Mango Street Luke , The Parable of the Prodigal Son Kurt Vonnegut Jr ., Harrison Bergeron WRITING EFFECTIVELY Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on Writing, The Themes of Science Fiction THINKING ABOUT THEME CHECKLIST: Writing About Theme TOPICS FOR WRITING ON THEME TERMS FOR REVIEW 7. SYMBOL ALLEGORY SYMBOLS RECOGNIZING SYMBOLS John Steinbeck , The Chrysanthemums Tobias Wolff , Bullet in the Brain Ursula K. Le Guin , The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Shirley Jackson, The Lottery WRITING EFFECTIVELY Shirley Jackson on Writing , Biography of a Story THINKING ABOUT SYMBOLS CHECKLIST: Writing About Symbols Sample Student Paper on Symbols , An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck''s "The Chrysanthemums" TOPICS FOR WRITING ON SYMBOLS TERMS FOR REVIEW 8. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS ORIGINS OF THE NOVEL NOVELISTIC METHODS READING NOVELS Leo Tolstoy , The Death of Ivan Ilych Franz Kafka , The Metamorphosis WRITING EFFECTIVELY Franz Kafka on Writing , Discussing The Metamorphosis THINKING ABOUT LONG STORIES AND NOVELS CHECKLIST: Writing About Long Stories and Novels TOPICS FOR WRITING on long stories and novels TERMS FOR REVIEW 9 GENRE FICTION ROMANCE VERSUS REALISM WHAT IS GENRE? TYPES OF GENRE FICTION GENRE AND POPULAR CULTURE Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder Ursula K. Le Guin , The Wife''s Story H. P. Lovecraft , The Outsider Dashiell Hammett , One Hour WRITING EFFECTIVELY Ray Bradbury on Writing , Fall in Love at the Library TOPICS FOR WRITING TERMS FOR REVIEW 10.
