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Anne Carson
-use of art to find identity |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
-short poem |
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Shirley Jackson
-the lottery ends up ending in death/traditions |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Oscar Wilde
-people with secret identities |
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| A Good Man is Hard to Find |
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Flannery O'Connor
-family vacation/grandmother/all die |
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Raymond Carver
-wife's deaf friend comes to visit |
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Kurt Vonnegut
-future/all people are the same/restrictions put on "talented" people |
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Sylvia Plath
-reference to WWII/empowerment of women |
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Dorothy Parker
-identity/needs a man/relies on alcohol |
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James Baldwin
-two brothers who come to understand each other |
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| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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Ambrose Bierce
-man being executed/hallucination |
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| The Minister's Black Veil |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
-veil itself scared off townspeople |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-woman goes insane from isolation |
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Anne Sexton
-fairytale endings don't exist/sarcasm |
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Thomas Pynchon
-apartment party/dying bird |
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| A Conversation with my Father |
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Grace Paley
-different views on life/whether or not there is a set path or you can make your own destiny |
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| Two Kinds of Joy Luck Club |
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Amy Tan
-young woman and mother struggling to make it in America |
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Bharati Mukherjee
-Islamic woman mourning over the loss of her husband and sons in a terrorist attack |
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Marjane Satrapi
-a child's struggle with the invasion of Iran |
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