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Essay Instructions: Analyze the theme of the short story Roman Fever. Use specific details, quotes and examples to support your thesis. Underline thesis statement. Include a Work Cited Page.
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Essay Instructions: Both "Babylon Revisited" and "Roman Fever" are, to a large extent, about characters unable to escape their pasts. Which character, Charlie Wales or Alida Slade, is more reponsonsible, finally, for the manner in which their past catches up to them?

some hints:
"more responsible" means:
which character--Charlie or Alida--has done more to bring on what happens to them at the end? Who is more to blame for their outcome?

Essay Instructions: Prose to Prose:
Susan Glaspell "Trifles"
Write a detailed comparison of the two literary pieces, using specific details from each, with proper use of quotations and citations. You may decide to limit your focus to character, plot, setting, symbolism, conflict, point of view, or theme. For example, you may choose Edith Wharton. We have read ?Roman Fever.? So, you would select another of Wharton?s repertoire that best suits your project?s direction.

Essay Instructions: • During this period the American physical and social environments changed radically. The frontier closed, immigration patterns changed, industrialization and mass capitalism reshaped American cities and American economic life, and a rising feminist consciousness drew new attention to the position of women. Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper analyzing the tension between the individual and the environment in one or more of the works of American literature assigned for Week One. You may focus on any definition of "environment": political, social, physical, or moral. Make sure you support all claims with evidence from the text or texts analyzed. No sources beyond the textbook are required, but you may use such sources if you choose.


READING: Read the following selections from the text, The American Tradition in Literature:
a. "Realism and Naturalism: 1880-1920" (pp. 1047-1053)
b. Mark Twain (pp. 1054-1061)
1) from Life on the MIssissippi (pp. 1064-1074)
2) "How to Tell a Story" (pp. 1074-1077)
c. William Dean Howells (pp. 1077-1079), "Editha" (pp. 1079-1088)
d. Henry James (pp. 1088-1091), "The Beast in the Jungle" (pp. 1148-1177)
e. Bret Harte (pp. 1177-1178), "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (pp. 1178-1185)
f. Red Cloud (pp. 1185-1186), "[All I Want Is Peace and Justice]" (pp. 1186-1187)
g. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (pp. 1187-1188), from "Life among the Piutes" (pp. 1188-1192)
h. Henry Adams (pp. 1192-1194), "The Dynamo and the Virgin" (pp. 1194-1201)
i. Sarah Orne Jewett (pp. 1201-1203), "A White Heron" (pp. 1203-1209)
j. Kate Chopin (pp. 1209-1211), "The Story of an Hour" (on Ariel CD)
k. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (pp. 1333-1334), "The Yellow Wallpaper" (pp. 1334-1345)
l. Frank Norris (pp. 1345-1346), "A Plea for Romantic Fiction" (pp. 1346-1349)
m. Stephen Crane (pp. 1349-1351), "The Open Boat" (pp. 1352-1368)
n. Edith Wharton (pp. 1368-1370)
1) "The Muse's Tragedy" (on Ariel CD)
2) "Roman Fever" (pp. 1371-1379)
o. Theodore Dreiser (pp. 1379-1381), "The Second Choice" (pp. 1381-1393)
p. Jack London (pp. 1393-1395), "To Build a Fire" (pp. 1395-1405)