Identify a theme that you see in three of the readings we have covered so far. Some questions to consider in your paper: What is that theme? How does it manifest in each of the three readings you selected? What are examples of it? Why is that theme one that modernist writing is uniquely capable of exploring? How does the theme echo the time period of the writing? Prepare a 3-4 page, MLA Style, with 12 Point, Times New Roman, one inch margins, paper on the subject. these are the stories • “Realism and Naturalism” (548-49) • Stephen Crane – “The Open Boat” (584) • Jack London – “To Build a Fire” (628) American Versions of Modernism” (663-66) • Zora Neale Hurston – “The Gilded Six-Bits” (943) • F. Scott Fitzgerald – “Babylon Revisited” (980) • William Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily” (998) • Ernest Hemingway – “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1021) • Richard Wright – “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (1061) • John Cheever – “The Swimmer” (1179)
