Two (2) Possible Thesis Statements

Texts/Authors to choose from:

1. “Araby” and “Eveline” by James Joyce

2. “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates

3. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut

4. “Those Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin

5. “The Bloody Chamber” “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” and “The Tiger’s Bride” by Angela Carter

6. Selected Short Stories by Donald Barthelme (“The School,” “The Game,” “Some of Us Have Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,” “Me and Miss Mandible,” “The Glass Mountain,” “The City of Churches”)

7. “The Gilded Six-Bits” and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston

8. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

9. “The Mark on the Wall,” “Kew Gardens” and/or “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf

10. “Lost in the Funhouse,” John Barth

11. Lorrie Moore short stories

12. Poetry: Any of the poems that we read for class from the following poets: cummings, Jarrell, Roethke, Brooks, Collins, Kinnell, Langston Hughes, Bogan, Kumin, Frost, etc.  

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