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Table of Contents:
Part I     Getting Started: From Response to Argument                                          Chapter 1      How to Write an Effective Essay: A Crash Course          The Basic Strategy        Looking Closely: Approaching a First Draft        Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft              Checklist for Revising a Draft        Peer Review        Preparing the Final Version     Chapter 2      The Writer as Reader      Reading and Responding   Kate Chopin • Ripe Figs        Reading as Re-creation        Collecting Evidence, Making Reasonable Inferences        Reading with Pen in Hand        Recording Your First Responses        Identifying Your Audience and Purpose        Your Turn: Arguing a Thesis in an Essay             A Sample Essay by a Student: “Images of Ripening in Kate Chopin’s `Ripe Figs’”        The Argument Analyzed        Behind the Scenes: From Early Responses to Final Version        Other Possibilities for Writing        Looking Closely at Two Contemporary Mini-Stories: Lydia Davis’s “Childcare” and “City People”   Lydia Davis • Childcare   Lydia Davis • City People        A Story, with a Student’s Notes and Final Essay   Ray Bradbury • August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains             Student Essay with Preliminary Notes:  “The Lesson of August 2026”        Stories for Analysis   Michele Serros • Senior Picture Day   Guy de Maupassant • The Necklace   T. Coraghessan Boyle • Greasy Lake***   Chapter 3      The Reader as Writer                                                      Developing a Thesis, Drafting, and Writing an Argument        Prewriting: Getting Ideas        Annotating a Text        More about Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin Kate Chopin • The Story of an Hour        Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing        Focused Free Writing       Listing      Asking Questions      Keeping a Journal      Arguing with Yourself: Critical Thinking      Arguing a Thesis           Checklist: Thesis Sentence      Drafting Your Argument           A Sample Draft: “Ironies in an Hour”      Revising an Argument      Outlining an Argument      Soliciting Peer Review, Thinking about Counterarguments           Final Version of the Sample Essay: “Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin’s `The Story of an Hour’”      A Brief Overview of the Final Version      Writing on Your Computer           Checklist: Writing with a Computer      Your Turn: Additional Stories for Analysis Kate Chopin • Désirée’s Baby           A Student’s Analysis: “Race and Identity in `Désirée’s Baby’”      Additional Stories for Study Kate Chopin • The Storm Anton Chekhov • Misery V. S. Naipaul• The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book   Chapter 4      The Pleasures of Reading--And of Writing --Arguments about Literature***      The Open Secret of Good Writing*** Bruce Holland Rogers • Three Soldiers***        Getting Ready to Write: A Student’s Responses, from  Jottings to Final Essay***            A Sample Essay by a Student:  Thinking about Three Soldiers Thinking***       The Student’s Analysis Analyzed***       Additional Stories for Study John Steinbeck • The Chrysanthemums Bobbie Ann Mason • Shiloh    Chapter 5      Writing as Performance***      The Writer as Performer*** Robert Frost• The Span of Life***       The Reader as Performer*** Jamaica Kincaid• Girl Anatole France• Our Lady’s Juggler***      2 Txt Poms*** Julia Bird• A txt msg pom*** Norman Silver• txt commandments ***   Chapter 6       Reading Literature Closely: Explication     What Is Literature?       Literature and Form       Form and Meaning  Robert Frost • The Span of Life       Reading in Slow Motion      Explication           A Sample Explication Langston Hughes • Harlem       Working Toward an Explication       Some Journal Entries            A Sample Essay by a Student (Final Version): “Langston Hughes’s `Harlem’”      Explication as Argument           Checklist: Drafting an Explication      Why Write? Purpose and Audience      Your Turn: Poems for Explication William Shakespeare • Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) John Donne • Holy Sonnet XIV (Batter my heart, three-personed God) Emily Brontë • Spellbound Li-Young Lee • I Ask My Mother to Sing Randall Jarrell • The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner    Chapter 7      Reading Literature Closely: Analysis      Analysis      Analyzing a Story from the Hebrew Bible: The Judgment of Solomon The Judgment of Solomon       Analyzing the Story       Other Possible Topics for Analysis      Analyzing a Story from the New Testament: The Parable of the Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son      Summary      Paraphrase      Comparison: An Analytic Tool           A Sample Essay by a Student: “Two New Women”      Looking at the Essay          Checklist: Revising a Comparison      Evaluation in Explication and Analysis      Choosing a Topic and Developing a Thesis in an Analytic Paper      Analyzing a Story James Thurber • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty      Working Toward a Thesis: Journal Entries      Developing the Thesis: Making Lists           Sample Draft by a Student: “Walter Mitty Is No Joke”      Developing an Argument      Introductory Paragraphs      Middle Paragraphs      Concluding Paragraphs      Coherence in Paragraphs: Using Transitions           Checklist: Revising Paragraphs      Review: Writing an Analysis      A Note on Technical Terminology      A Lyric Poem and a Student’s Argument Aphra Behn • Song: Love Armed      Journal Entries           A Sample Essay by a Student: “The Double Nature of Love”          Checklist: Editing a Draft      Your Turn: Short Stories and Poems for Analysis Edgar Allan Poe • The Cask of Amontillado Katherine Anne Porter • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall José Armas • El Tonto del Barrio Leslie Marmon Silko • The Man to Send Rain Clouds Billy Collins • Introduction to Poetry Robert Frost • The Road Not Taken Robert Herrick • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Martín Espada • Bully   Chapter 8      Arguing an Interpretation      Interpretation and Meaning       Is the Author’s Intention a Guide to Meaning?      What Characterizes a Sound Interpretation?      An Example: Interpreting Pat Mora’s “Immigrants” Pat Mora • Immigrants      Thinking Critically about Responses to Literature           Checklist: Writing an Interpretation      Two Interpretations by Students Robert Frost • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening           Sample Essay by a Student: “Stopping by Woods—and Going On”           Sample Essay by a Student: “`Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ as a Short Story”      Your Turn: Poems for Interpretation Robert Frost • Mending Wall T. S. Eliot • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock John Keats • Ode on a Grecian Urn Thomas Hardy • The Man He Killed Gwendolyn Brooks • The Mother      Stories for Interpretation Joyce Carol Oates • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Jorge Luis Borges•The Lottery in Babylon*** Thinking Critically: Case Study on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”       Overview of the Case Study  William Faulkner • A Rose for Emily      Typescript Showing Material Deleted from the Published Version      William Faulkner • Comments on the Story      Two Interpretations by Students, with Notes/Outlines           Sample Essay by a Student: “Why Miss Emily Grierson Killed Homer Barron”           Sample Essay by a Student: “Insight into Horror: The Role of the Narratorin `A Rose for Emily’”   Chapter 9       Arguing an Evaluation      Criticism and Evaluation  Jeffrey Whitmore• Bedtime Story Douglas L. Haskins • Hide and Seek Mark Plants • Equal Rites      Are There Critical Standards?       Morality and Truth as Standards       Other Ways of Thinking about Truth and Realism       Your Turn: Poems and Stories for Evaluation Sarah N. Cleghorn • The Golf Links Wilfred Owen • Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen • Anthem for Doomed Youth Henry Reed • Naming of Parts Katherine Mansfield • Miss Brill W. Somerset Maugham • The Appointment in Samarra Ambrose Bierce • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Isabel Allende • If You Touched My Heart Helena Maria Viramontes • The Moth   Chapter 10       Research Writing with Sources What Research Is, and What Research Is Not Primary and Secondary Materials Locating Materials: First Steps Other Bibliographic Aids Electronic Sources Encyclopedias: Print and Electronic Versions The Internet/World Wide Web Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web What Does Your Own Institution Offer? Checklist: Using the World Wide Web Taking Notes Two Mechanical Aids: The Photocopier and the Computer A Guide to Note-Taking Drafting the Paper Focus on Primary Sources Avoiding Plagiarism Checklist: Avoiding Plagiarism   Part II Up Close: Thinking Critically about Literary Works and Literary Forms    Chapter 11       Critical Thinking: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Making Comparisons      What Is Critical Thinking?      Asking and Answering Questions      Comparing and Contrasting      Analyzing and Evaluating Evidence      Thinking Critically: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions, and Comparing—E. E. Cummings’s “Buffalo Bill ’s” E. E. Cummings • Buffalo Bill ’s      A Short-Short Story, and Its Revised Version Raymond Carver • Mine Raymond Carver • Little Things      Your Turn: Writing an Argument about Carver’s Two Stories   Chapter 12      A Brief Guide: Writing about Literature Standing Back: Kinds of Writing Getting Close: Drafting the Essay Generating Ideas Revising a Draft           Checklist: Reviewing the Basics   Chapter 13      Reading and Writing about Essays      Types of Essays      The Essayist’s Persona      Voice      Tone      Prewriting: Identifying the Topic and Thesis Brent Staples • Black Men and Public Space      Summary and Analysis      Preparing a Summary      Stating the Thesis of an Essay      Drafting a Summary            Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Essays      Your Turn: Essays for Analysis Langston Hughes • Salvation Laura Vanderkam • Hookups Starve the Soul   Chapter 14  Reading and Writing about Stories      Stories True and False Grace Paley • Samuel      Elements of Fiction      Plot and Character      Foreshadowing      Setting and Atmosphere      Symbolism      Narrative Point of View      Style and Point of View     Theme          Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Stories      Your Turn: Stories for Analysis Diana Chang • The Oriental Contingent Gish Jen • Who’s Irish? Ron Wallace• Worry   Chapter 15  Thinking Critically: A Case Study about Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor • A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor • Revelation       Remarks from Essays and Letters       From “The Fiction Writer and His Country”      From “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”      From “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”      From “Writing Short Stories”     On Interpreting “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”     “A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable”   Chapter  16       Graphic Ficition***      Letters and Pictures*** Grant Wood • “Death on  the Ridge Roasd”***      Reading an Image: A Short Story Told in One Panel*** Tony  Carrillo •  “F Minus”***      A Second Example of Reading Images: A Story Told in Sequential  Panels*** Art Spiegelman • “Nature vs. Nurture”*** Will Eisner • “Hamlet on a Rooftop”*** R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz • “A Hunger Artist” ***             Chapter 17       Reading and Writing about Plays      Types of Plays: Tragedy and Comedy      Elements of Drama      Theme      Plot      Gestures      Setting      Characterization and Motivation      Organizing an Analysis of a Character      First Draft      Revised Draft             Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Plays      Thinking about a Filmed Version of a Play      Getting Ready to Write            Checklist: Writing about a Filmed Play      Your Turn: Plays for Analysis Susan Glaspell, Trifles David Ives • Sure Thing***      A Note on Greek Tragedy Sophocles • Oedipus Rex***   Chapter 18       Reading and Writing about Poems      Elements of Poetry      The Speaker and the Poet Emily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson • Wild Nights—Wild Nights      The Language of Poetry: Diction and Tone William Shakespeare • Sonnet 146 (Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth)       Writing about the Speaker Robert Frost • The Telephone      Journal Entries      Figurative Language William Shakespeare • Sonnet 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun) Dana Gioia • Money Robert Frost • The Hardship of Accounting Anonymous • Thirty Days Hath September      Imagery and Symbolism Edmund Waller • Song (Go, lovely rose) William Blake • The Sick Rose Linda Pastan • Jump Cabling      Verbal Irony and Paradox      Structure Robert Herrick • Upon Julia’s Clothes           A Sample Essay by a Student: “Herrick’s Julia, Julia’s Herrick”      The Argument Analyzed      Explication      An Example William Butler Yeats • The Balloon of the Mind      Annotations and Journal Entries           A Sample Essay by a Student: “Explication of W. B. Yeats’s `The Balloon of the Mind’”            Checklist: Explication      Rhythm and Versification: A Glossary for Reference      Meter      Patterns of Sound      Stanzaic Patterns Billy Collins • Sonnet      Blank Verse and Free Verse            Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Poems      Your Turn: Poems about People Robert Browning • My Last Duchess E. E. Cummings • anyone lived in a pretty how town Sylvia Plath • Daddy Gwendolyn Brooks • We Real Cool Etheridge Knight • For Malcolm, a Year After Anne Sexton • Her Kind James Wright • Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota   Chapter 19       Thinking Critically about Poems: Two Case Studies A Case Study about Emily Dickinson  Emily Dickinson • I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—  Emily Dickinson • The Soul selects her own Society  Emily Dickinson • These are the days when Birds come back  Emily Dickinson • Papa above!  Emily Dickinson • There’s a certain Slant of light  Emily Dickinson • This World is not Conclusion  Emily Dickinson • I got so I could hear his name—  Emily Dickinson • Those—dying, then  Emily Dickinson • Apparently with no surprise  Emily Dickinson • Tell all the Truth but tell it slant       A Sample Argument by a Student: “Religion and Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson”  A Case Study on Comparing Poems and Pictures       Word and Image Jane Flanders • Van Gogh’s Bed William Carlos Williams • The Great Figure Adrienne Rich • Mourning Picture Cathy Song • Beauty and Sadness Mary Jo Salter • The Rebirth of Venus Anne Sexton • The Starry Night W. H. Auden • Musée des Beaux Arts X. J. Kennedy • Nude Descending a Staircase Greg Pape • American Flamingo Carl Phillips • Luncheon on the Grass John Updike • Before the Mirror Wislawa Szymborska • Brueghel’s Two Monkeys      A Sample Argument by a Student: “Two Ways of Looking at a Starry Night”   Part III      Standing Back: A Thematic Anthology   Chapter 20        The World Around Us Essays   Louise Erdrich, Ringo’s Gold*** BIll McKibben • Now or Never Stories   Aesop • The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop • The North Wind and the Sun Jack London • To Build a Fire Sarah Orne Jewett • A White Heron Patricia Grace• Butterflies*** Poems   Matthew Arnold • In Harmony with Nature Thomas Hardy • Transformations John Keats • To Autumn Gerard Manley Hopkins • God’s Grandeur Walt Whitman • A Noiseless Patient Spider Emily Dickinson • “Nature” is what we see Emily Dickinson • A narrow Fellow in the Grass Joy Harjo • Vision *** Mary Oliver • The Black Walnut Tree*** Kay Ryan • Turtle  *** Thinking Critically: Case Study about Robert Frost Robert Frost • The Pasture Robert Frost • Mowing Robert Frost • The Wood-Pile Robert Frost • The Oven Bird Robert Frost • The Need of Being Versed in Country Things Robert Frost • The Most of It Robert Frost • Design Robert Frost on Poetry   Robert Frost • The Figure a Poem Makes   Chapter 21       Journeys Essays   Joan Didion • On Going Home Montesquieu • Persian Letters Stories   Nathaniel Hawthorne • Young Goodman Brown Eudora Welty • A Worn Path Toni Cade Bambara • The Lesson Amy Hempel • Today Will Be a Quiet Day James Joyce • Eveline Poems   John Keats • On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Percy Bysshe Shelley • Ozymandias Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Ulysses Countee Cullen • Incident William Stafford • Traveling Through the Dark Adrienne Rich • Diving into the Wreck  Derek Walcott • A Far Cry from Africa Sherman Alexie • On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City William Butler Yeats • Sailing to Byzantium Christina Rossetti • Uphill Emily Dickinson • Because I could not stop for Death A. E. Housman • To an Athlete Dying Young A Note on Spirituals*** Anonymous • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot*** Anonymous • Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel***   Chapter 22       Love and Hate  Essay   Judith Ortiz Cofer • I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened Stories   Ernest Hemingway • Cat in the Rain      A Student’s Notes and Journal Entries on “Cat in the Rain”      Asking Questions about a Story      A Sample Essay by a Student: “Hemingway’s American Wife”      A Second Example: An Essay Drawing on Related Material in the Chapter      A Sample Essay by a Student: “Hemingway’s Unhappy Lovers” Zora Neale Hurston • Sweat Raymond Carver • Cathedral Poems   Anonymous • Western Wind Christopher Marlowe • The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Sir Walter Raleigh • The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd John Donne • The Bait William Shakespeare • Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes) William Shakespeare • Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) John Donne • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Andrew Marvell • To His Coy Mistress Edna St. Vincent Millay • Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink Robert Frost • The Silken Tent Robert Pack • The Frog Prince Nikki Giovanni • Love in Place Play   Terrence McNally • Andre’s Mother   Chapter 23        Making Men and Women Essays   Steven Doloff • The Opposite Sex Gretel Ehrlich • About Men Stories   Charlotte Perkins Gilman • The Yellow Wallpaper Richard Wright • The Man Who Was Almost a Man  John Updike • Oliver’s Evolution  *** Poems   Anonymous • What Are Little Boys Made Of Anonymous • Higamus, Hogamus Dorothy Parker • General Review of the Sex Situation Louise Bogan • Women Rita Dove • Daystar Theodore Roethke • My Papa’s Waltz Sharon Olds • Rites of Passage Frank O’Hara • Homosexuality Julia Alvarez • Woman’s Work Marge Piercy • Barbie Doll Play   Henrik Ibsen • A Doll’s House   Chapter 24        Innocence and Experience Essay   George Orwell • Shooting an Elephant Stories   Hans Christian Andersen • The Emperor’s New Clothes James Joyce • Araby Isaac Bashevis Singer • The Son from America Ha Jin • Love in the Air*** ZZ Packer • Brownies*** Poems   William Blake • Infant Joy William Blake • Infant Sorrow William Blake • The Echoing Green William Blake • The Lamb William Blake • The Tyger Gerard Manley Hopkins • Spring and Fall E. E. Cummings • in Just- Louise Glück • The School Children Louise Glück • Gretel in Darkness Linda Pastan • Ethics Play   Thinking Critically: A Case Study about Shakespeare’s Hamlet      A Note on the Elizabethan Theater      A Note on Hamlet on the Stage       A Note on the Text of Hamlet  William Shakespeare • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Criticism      Anne Barton • The Promulgation of Confusion      Stanley Wells • On the First Soliloquy      Elaine Showalter • Representing Ophelia      Bernice W. Kliman • The BBC Hamlet: A Television Production      Will Saretta • Branagh’s Film of Hamlet   Chapter 25      All in a Day’s Work*** Essays Barbara Ehrenreich • Wal-Mart Orientation Program*** Stories Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Jokes about Lines of Work***             Jokes as Short Stories***             The Role of Stereotypes***                         Four Doctors Went Hunting***                         A Businessman Interviewed Job Candidates***                         The Absent-Minded Professor***                         An American Businessman in Mexico***                         Two New Yorkers on Vacation Are Hunting in Maine***                         The Detective and the Logical Doctor***                         The Heart Surgeon and the Mechanic***                         The Rich Businessman at the Business School Commencement*** Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm • Mother Holle*** Will Eisner • The Day I Became a Professional*** Daniel Orozco   Orientation John Updike • A & P Lorrie Moore  How to Become a Writer Poems William Wordsworth • The Solitary Reaper Walt Whitman • I hear America Singing Carl Sandburg • Chicago Gary Snyder • Hay for the Horses Robert Hayden • Those Winter Sundays Seamus Heaney • Digging Marge Piercy • To be of use Marge Piercy • The Secretary Chant John Updike • Ex-Basketball Player  Plays Jane Martin• Rodeo Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman***     Chapter 26       Identity in America Essays   Anna Lisa Raya • It’s Hard Enough Being Me Andrew Lam • Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone? Stories   Amy Tan • Two Kinds Alice Walker • Everyday Use Poems   Emma Lazarus • The New Colossus Thomas Bailey Aldrich • The Unguarded Gates Joseph Bruchac III • Ellis Island Aurora Levins Morales • Child of the Americas Gloria Anzaldúa • To Live in the Borderlands Means You Jimmy Santiago Baca • So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans Langston Hughes • Theme for English B Pat Parker • For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to be my friend Mitsuye Yamada • To the Lady Nila northSun • Moving Camp Too Far Plays   Luis Valdez • Los Vendidos Lorraine Hansberry • A Raisin in the Sun   Chapter 27        American Dreams and Nightmares Essays   Chief Seattle • My People Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Abraham Lincoln•Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery*** Studs Terkel • Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dream Stories Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • Harrison Bergeron Langston Hughes • One Friday Morning William Carlos Williams • The Use of Force Shirley Jackson • The Lottery Grace Paley • A Man Told Me the Story of His Life Tim O’Brien • The Things They Carried Sherman Alexie • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven*** Amy Sterling Casil •Perfect Stranger*** Ralph Ellison •Battle Royal Poems   Robert Hayden • Frederick Douglass Lorna Dee Cervantes • Refugee Ship Edwin Arlington Robinson • Richard Cory W. H. Auden • The Unknown Citizen Allen Ginsberg • A Supermarket in California Marge Piercy • What’s that Smell in the Kitchen? Yusef Komunyakaa • Facing It Billy Collins • The Names Gwendolyn Brooks • The Bean Eaters Dorothy Parker • Résumé Plays   Tennessee Williams • The Glass Menagerie   Chapter 28        Law and Disorder Essays   Zora Neale Hurston • A Conflict of Interest Martin Luther King Jr. • Letter from Birmingham Jail Stories Chinua Achebe•Civil Peace  Elizabeth Bishop • The Hanging of the Mouse Ursula K. Le Guin • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas William Faulkner • Barn Burning Tobias Woolf•Powder Poems   Anonymous • Birmingham Jail A. E. Housman • The Carpenter’s Son A. E. Housman • Oh who is that young sinner Claude McKay • If We Must Die Jimmy Santiago Baca • Cloudy Day Carolyn Forché • The Colonel Plays Billy Goda• No Crime*** Sophocles•Antigone    Chapter 29       Worlds beyond Worlds*** Essay Stephen King • Why We Crave Horror Movies*** Stories Elizabeth Bowen•The Demon Lover*** Gabriel García-Márquez• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Arthur C. Clarke•Nine Billion Names of God Poems A Note on Ballads*** Anonymous•The Demon Lover*** Anonymous•The Wife of Usher's Well*** John Keats• La belle dame sans merci A. E. Housman• Is my team ploughing***   Appendix A      Writing about Literature: An Overview of Critical Strategies  Appendix B      Remarks About Manuscript Form Appendix C      How Much Do You Know about Citing Sources?  A Quiz with Answers   Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines Index of Terms