All of the short stories we are reading in this class, deal with a type of trauma. In your essay, explain and trace a particular trauma in one of the short stories we have read. Who experiences the trauma? What are their symptoms? How do their symptoms develop over the course of the story? What overall larger message emerges from the story by focusing on trauma? What do we learn from the story? "MLA" All of your essays need to be 6-7 double-spaced pages in length and answer the prompt concisely. The prompts for each essay will change, but the guidelines below will remain the same for all essays you turn in. In writing your essays, please follow standard academic format. You do not need to do researchunless stated explicitly in the promptbecause it is your close reading, i.e. your explanation and unpacking of passages and words that matters the most. Try to incorporate any literary terms we have defined and discussed in class.

All of the short stories we are reading in this class, deal with a type of trauma. In your essay, explain and trace a particular trauma in one of the short stories we have read. Who experiences the trauma? What are their symptoms? How do their symptoms develop over the course of the story? What overall larger message emerges from the story by focusing on trauma? What do we learn from the story? "MLA" All of your essays need to be 6-7 double-spaced pages in length and answer the prompt concisely. The prompts for each essay will change, but the guidelines below will remain the same for all essays you turn in. In writing your essays, please follow standard academic format. You do not need to do researchunless stated explicitly in the promptbecause it is your close reading, i.e. your explanation and unpacking of passages and words that matters the most. Try to incorporate any literary terms we have defined and discussed in class.