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November 3 - ATPH Body Paragraph

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How to write a body paragraph

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FALL FINAL ESSAY QUESTIONS

“The Appointment in Samarra”: To what extent do the characters in the stories we read have personal determination, that is, control their fate?

“The Scorpion and the Frog”: If characters have personal determination, to what extent are their choices a result of their nature?

FALL READING LIST

Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”

Chopin, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”

Updike, “A&P”

Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”

O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Jackson, “The Lottery”

Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron”

Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”

Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Achebe, Things Fall Apart

enjoying literature

Why should we spend our time reading novels and poems when, out there, big things are going on?
“In the realm of narrative psychology, a person’s life story is not a Wikipedia biography of the facts and events of a life, but rather the way a person integrates those facts and events internally—picks them apart and weaves them back together to make meaning. This narrative becomes a form of identity, in which the things someone chooses to include in the story, and the way she tells it, can both reflect and shape who she is. A life story doesn’t just say what happened, it says why it was important, what it means for who the person is, for who they’ll become, and for what happens next.”
— Julie Beck, The Atlantic