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William Faulkner
Ralph Ellison
Truman Capote
BarnBurningshortstory........................... Literary Lens: Stream of Consciousness
Author’sStyle:Syntax ...........................
The Black Ball short story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Lens: Diction
Author’sStyle:Tone ............................
Miriamshortstory . . . . . . . ........................ Literary Lens: Voice
Author’s Style: Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
UNIT FOUR Postwar Voices
1950s and 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ray Bradbury
John Cheever
The Veldt short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Lens: Juxtaposition
Author’s Style: Foreshadowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Wrysons short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Lens: Irony
Author’s Style: Satire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
vii
John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Literary Lens: Symbols
Author’sStyle:Setting ........................... 335
336 357
Eudora Welty Why I Live at the P.O. short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Literary Lens: Unreliable Narrator
Author’sStyle:LocalColor........................ 373
374 385
RichardWright fromBlackBoymemoir ........................... 386 Literary Lens: Conflict
Author’sStyle:Characterization..................... 391
392 405
Responding to Unit Three. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 WRITING EXTENSION: Personal Essay
410
414 429
Arthur Miller from The Crucible drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 Literary Lens: Allegory
Author’sStyle:Setting ........................... 439
440 449
Kurt Vonnegut from Kurt Vonnegut: Letters letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 Literary Lens: Tone
Author’sStyle:Voice............................ 457