From the five following passages explain the significance of each one in a thesis goverened one page responce to each passage. your discussion should directly tie in with what you believe to be the theme of the story. Make a clear connection between the passage and the theme. Also, make suure you provide other textual examples of the stories to support your answers(make sure that youu also explain the significance of the passages and clealy show how they support your interptation)
1. A Good Man is Hartd to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Passage: “His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother’s head cleared for an instant. She saw the man’s face twisted close to her awn as if he were going to cry and she murrmered.’Why your one of my babies. Your one of my own children!’She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times in the chest”
2. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Passage: I wondered over the land, and good people sis not neglect me. After many years I became old and white; I heard a great deal, many lies and falsehoods, but the longer I lived the more I understood that there really were no lies. whatever doesn’t really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn’t happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not nest year”
3. Swaddling Clothes by Mishima Yokio
Passage: “She did not feel in the least afraid and made no effort to free herself. In a flash the thought had struk her, Ah so the twenty years have already gone by!The forest of the Imperial Palace was pitch dark and uterly silent”
4. A Father by Bharati Mukherjee
passage: “At twenty-six Babli had found the man of her dreams;whereas at twenty-six Mr. Bhowmick had given up on truth, beauty, and poetry, and exchanged them for two years at Carnegie Tech’
5. The Gold-Legged Frog by Khamsing Srinawk
Passage: “You sure are lucky,’ the words raised his spirts. He smiled a little before repeating expectantly, How was i lucky, how?”
All of these short stories can be found in World of Fiction by Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson
