Instruction
1-Short essay assignment: In the story The Lady or the Tiger, which comes through the door, the lady, or the tiger? Please do not finish the story but use analysis and specific examples from the story along with your own personal knowledge/experiences to defend your answer.
Short essays should be 4 to 5 paragraphs, and structured with an opening paragraph, a thesis statement, and a conclusion. Quotations from the story do not need to be cited for short
2-John Updike said, “I want stories to startle and engage me within the first few sentences, and in their middle to widen or deepen or sharpen my knowledge of human activity, and to end by giving me a sensation of completed statement.” To what extent do you think A & P fulfills these demands.
Short essays should be 4 to 5 paragraphs, and structured with an opening paragraph, a thesis statement, and a conclusion. Quotations from the story do not need to be cited for short essays.
Short Essay: Young Goodman Brown is allegory (a story in which everything in the text is symbolic). What symbols do you see in the story and what might they represent? Essay should be 4 to 5 paragraphs in length and be organized with an opening and concluding paragraph.