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| A story about an African-American girl named Dina who meets a lesbian named Heidi. They become good friends and the story goes on to question the truth behind their friendship. |
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| Z.Z. Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" |
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| A bunch of bitchy little African-American girl scouts make fun of the white troop, Troop 909, because one of them apparently called them "Niggers." It is later made apparent that Troop 909 is the "special" group of girls. |
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| A story about Twyla and Roberta (one is black, the other is white, although we never know which one is which) whom are raised in an orphanage together, and the story shows how racism plays through. |
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| Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" |
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| A story about Isie Watts, an energetic yet mischievous girl with an angry grandmother and father. |
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| Zora Neale Hurston's "Drenched in Light" |
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Set in a small all-black Florida town near Orlando, ‘‘Sweat’’ opens with Delia Jones soaking some clothes on a Sunday night. She is wondering where her husband has gone with her horse and buckboard (a simple carriage), when suddenly a bullwhip drops over her shoulder and terrifies her. Her husband, Sykes, then bursts out laughing at this joke he has played, since he is well aware of Delia’s fear of snakes, and proceeds to taunt her and kick around the clothes she had put into piles.
Delia tries to ignore him, but Sykes continues to threaten her, saying that she should... |
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| Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" |
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| A story about a family who's house burned down. The oldest daughter, Dee (Wangero), comes home with a new sense of african-american pride and demands a quilt from her mother. The mother denies her request and gives it to her youngest daughter, Maggie. |
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| Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" |
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| An African-American who thinks he has a disturbing family history wants to deliver a speech. In order to do so, he is told to fight in a battle royal, grab coins from an electrocuting matt and more. |
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| Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" |
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| A story about a young man named Dave who believes that if he buys a gun, people will start to respect him as an adult. Sadly, he ends up buying the gun, shooting the boss' mule and killing it, facing dire consequences. |
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| Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" |
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| A story about an odd young man named Paul who ends up stealing money from an investment agency that he works for and taking an expensive trip to New York. When his dad finds out and goes to NY to kick his ass, Paul commits suicide by jumping in front of a train. |
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| Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" |
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| The story of a woman named Emily Grierson told from her neighbors' point of view. It describes her father's death, her loss of the men she loves, and eventually how she becomes a necrophilliac. |
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| William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" |
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| The story about Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy. This story talks about a con man who goes by the name "Pointer", who ultimately steals Joy's heart in order to acquire her wooden leg. |
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| Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" |
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| A story about an annoying grandmother who ruins her (miserable) family's trip to Florida in order to go see a house that she remembered from her childhood. She eventually realizes that the house was not in the state that she thought it was in and then the car crashes and the Misfit comes and kills them. |
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| Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" |
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| A story about a man who comes back from war, finds a little girl on the beach, flirts with her and tells her about some crazy banana fish scheme. He kisses her foot, she disapproves, then he kills himself. I know, it was a shitty story. |
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| J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" |
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| Ginnie and Mannox argue about paying one another for cab rides. Ginnie goes into Mannox's apartment in order for Mannox to give her money. She meets Mannox's brother, something something something chicken sandwich the end. Another fantastic story -_- |
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| J.D. Salinger's "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" |
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| A story about a miserable housewife who is drinking while complaining to her friend. Her true lover died in some freak japanese oven incident. She married the wrong guy. Her daughter, Ramona, has an imaginary friend. When he dies, she replaces him. The mother freaks out, end of story. |
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| J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" |
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| A story about a boy named Sammy who works at a store called A&P. When three girls in bikinis come into the store, Sammy's boss gives them crap about their appearance. Sammy quits his job in hopes of impressing the girls. But, they don't say a word and leave before he gets a chance to see them. Winning. |
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| A story about a drunk man who decides to go home by swimming through each neighbor's pool. Represents the passage of time. |
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| John Cheever's "The Swimmer" |
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| A story about a seemingly perfect couple who invests in an enormous yet ugly radio. The radio is broken and picks up signals from their neighbors. The wife spies on the neighbors in order to cover up the fact that she is a lying and deceiving whore. |
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| John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio" |
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| A story about Jewish soldiers fighting in the war. Grossbart takes advantage of Sergeant Marx in hopes of using his religion as an advantage in order to gain special privileges. This story is about Marx's 2 lives; one of war and the other of Judaism, being pit against each other. |
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| Phillip Roth's "Defender of the Faith" |
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| Robert Olen Butler's "Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" |
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| A story about a bunch of Vietnam soldiers. This story is different and unique because it describes the soldiers and all of their actions through what they carried. |
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| Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carry" |
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| In this story, Mary Anne Bell, Mark Fossie's sweetheart, comes to the military war zone in Vietnam. As the story progresses, we watch Mary Anne transform from a sweet and typical American girl to a woman who becomes one with the war zone. |
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| Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" |
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| A story about Lyman and his brother Henry. The two buy a red convertible together and bond over it. Henry goes off to war and leaves Lyman with the duty of taking care of the car. When Henry comes back, he is a completely new person with a bitter attitude. After many failed attempts, Lyman destroys the car hoping that Henry will like it again. Eventually Henry fixes it, they go to a lake, fight, start laughing, then drown themselves... |
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| Louise Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" |
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| Jose Luis Borges' "Emma Zunz" |
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| Jose Luis Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths" |
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| Jose Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel" |
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| A story about a woman named Maria, whose car breaks down. She goes to a bus and asks to use the phone. She gets in, and the bus takes her to an insane asylum in Barcelona for the rest of her life. She is dating Saturno the magician. |
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "I Only Came to Use the Phone" |
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| A story about an old man with wings who falls out of the sky and is discovered by a family. They leave him in a chicken coop and he becomes a tourist attraction. Eventually, the family makes money off of him and he gets well and flies away. |
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" |
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| Yukio Mishima's "Patriotism" |
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| A story about a Chinese man who runs a pancake house in America in order to put his daughters through college. He is cruel to his employees and eventually hires a bunch of illegal chinese men that remind him of himself. When they get fired, he loses his sense of Americanism. He officially throws his Americanism away when he throws Jeremy's polo in the pool, followed by his jacket. |
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| Gish Jen's "In the American Society" |
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| A story that deals with the dematerialization of man. This story describes a Cartographer's theory about how a man goes through dematerialization if he is not loved by anyone. |
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| Peter Carey's "Do You Love Me" |
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