Reader Response Essay: Interpret one or, at most, two stories from the six weeks of the course. Your aim is to elaborate a reading that is interesting, incisive, and stylistically elegant. The response can be a) a formal analysis of plot, narrative voice, and setting; b) broadly thematic focusing on gender, race, class, love, modernity, nihilism, the search for existential meaning, psychology, sprituality, or other topics; c) autobiographically-inspired while rooting your personal response in a close textual analysis of the story.

Reader Response Essay: Interpret one or, at most, two stories from the six weeks of the course. Your aim is to elaborate a reading that is interesting, incisive, and stylistically elegant. The response can be a) a formal analysis of plot, narrative voice, and setting; b) broadly thematic focusing on gender, race, class, love, modernity, nihilism, the search for existential meaning, psychology, sprituality, or other topics; c) autobiographically-inspired while rooting your personal response in a close textual analysis of the story.

12 point font

1 inch margins.

For the essay use these stories: Ramona by Sarah Gerkensmeyer and Possession by John Smolens

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