Choose a story, one that has not already been assigned, in the e-book Fifty Great Short Stories, and tell me what you think the author is really trying to get at.

Choose a story, one that has not already been assigned, in the e-book Fifty Great Short Stories, and tell me what you think the author is really trying to get at. Also, tell me how you relate to the story and what other stories, novels, movies, etc. you can compare it with. Think about if there are any ways the story fits in with your overall education. I am considering this the final exam, and it is worth a maximum of 40 points. You must write at least 750 words of your own writing (quotations do not count if you choose to use them, which is up to you). Please submit your essay in the text entry box below, and make sure you proofread it very carefully.

story that has been read:
“The Lottery,”
Previous Condition” by James Baldwin
“The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia E. Butler
The Crime of the Mathematics Teacher” by Clarice Lispector
“Gogol” by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Three Girls” by Joyce Carol Oates
“The Wind Cave” by Haruki Murakami
“William Wilson” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Other” by Jorge Luis Borges
“Paladin of the Lost Hour” by Harlan Ellison
“The Other Place” by esteemed author Mary Gaitskill
“The Madonna of the Future” by Henry James
“The Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka

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