Some possible options, though by no means the limit of possibilities:
- Use of one element of fiction (character, theme, symbolism, irony, point of view, etc.) in one or more of the stories.
- Discuss “The Lottery” by considering Shirley Jackson’s explanation in the San Francisco Chronicle in July 1948: “(see https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters
- Examine the cultural contexts for “Battle Royal,” such as Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address, W. E. B. DuBois’ Of Mr. Booker T. Washington, and Gunnar Myrdal’s theories about social equality.
- Examine how the target audience and cultural contexts shape changes in variations of Red Riding Hood.
- Discuss the use of magical realism in Neil Gaiman’s “Chivalry” or Gabriel García Márquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
- Discuss the use of quest narrative in Neil Gaiman’s “Chivalry” or in Eudora Welty’s “A Visit of Charity.”
- Discuss point of view and the unreliable first-person narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
- Discuss the confined narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
- Develop with ample use of the text(s). Focus the paper on an overall, central, narrow thesis so that you are making a clear argument, not presenting a list or general idea. In other words, avoid plot summary and have a clear point. In this paper
