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38 Cards in this Set
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Young Goodman Brown |
Nathaniel Hawthorne POV- Third Person Limited Goodman Brown Faith Setting Salem VIllage
Plot- Goodman brown leaves his innocent wife to attend the devils meeting, he realizes that all people are evil, and he must stay true to god for his wife's sake, and lives the remainder of his life in fear |
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How to be the other woman |
lorrie more POV- 2nd person Setting- 1980s- city a woman is involved in an affair, she is taken out by a man and begins to struggle with her identity. Feels guilty and comapers herself to man's wife.
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Samuel |
Grace Paley POV- 3rd omniscient Setting- NYC
a boy and his friends are playing on a train car while the passengers watch dissaprovingly, the break is pulled to stop them and Samuel dies, making his mom realizes she will never have another samuel again. |
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The Lady With the Little Dog |
Anton Chekov POV- third person limited Setting- Yalta, Russia
Plot- an old man is in Yalta away from his job in Moscow, he likes women more than men, and meets a woman who is on vacation as well, he befriends her and they fall in love. Anna feels guilty and loathes the relationship. Both are called home. The man can't stop thinking about her and he visits her town to see her and they decide to visit in moscow |
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Cask of Amontillado |
Edgar Allen Poe POV- first person Setting Venice It
A man has wronged another montressor and plans to exact his revenge. He uses fortunatos love for wine to lure him into the montressor cellar/ crypt where e locks fortunato in a small room. |
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The Necklace |
Guy DeMausspant POV- Third Person limited Plot- Loisel dreams of luxury which she cannot have. It's the only thing that will make her happy. She is invited to a party, borrows a necklace, is in her glory, returns, is depressed loses necklace, spends lifetime in poverty paying off debts. |
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Hills Like White Elephants |
Ernest Hemingway POV- third person Setting Spain
An american and his girlfriend wait in a bar for a train and talk about the girl having an abortion, the girl is unsure, but agrees passive agressively, she is unsure whether she will be happy with the an if they have the operation |
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An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Ambrose Bierce Peyton Farquar yearns to help the confederate cause, when a Northern scout comes to his plantation and tell hima bridge could be burned, peyton goes. He is caught and hung, but escapes, when he returns home, he realizes he is dead at the noose
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That Evening Sun |
Willam Faulkner 3rd person- quentin
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Roman Fever |
Edith Wharton third person roman terrace
Alida Slade, Grace Ansley talking. They are fake friends. Alida is higher up socially and more confident in herself. Grace feels bad for her though, somewhat becauses her daughter sucks. Grance continues to bach alida throughout. The story ends with Grace telling Alida that she slept with Delphin
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This is what it means to say Pheonix Arizona |
Sherman Alexi
A man goes to recover his father's body
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Why I live at the PO |
Eudora Welty POV first person
Stella Rondo returns from Illinois and is jealous of sister's stint with her husband and takes it upon herself to turn the entire family against sister. Sister finally has enough and goes to live in the post office so she can be alone away from her family |
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Recitatif |
Toni Morrison first person |
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Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot |
Robert Olen Butler first person
A man is killed by falling from a tree he is using to spy on hhis wife and her potential lover. He is reincarnated as a parrot and is purchased by hiis wife. He can see all she does with her lover, and becomes jealous and more birdlike, as he was a man, very skiddish and uncertain. |
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Brownies |
zz packer First Person Some black brownies don't like the white brownies and think they called them ******. So the black brownies plan to **** them up somehow until they realize the white girls have special needs. The narrator realizes that there is just something mean in tis world. |
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Blood Burning Moon |
Jean Toomer third person omniscient
Two men love Louisa, one is white, and is Louisa's employer at his home, Bob Stone, the other is a strong working black man, Tom, who really enjoys cutting *******. Tom goes to meet Louisa and they sit and talk, Bob is angered by this and attacks Tom. Tom cuts Bob and kills him, and Tom is hung by white men. |
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Good Country People |
Flannery O'Connor third person omniscient
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Bullet in the Brain |
Tobias Wolff First Person
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The Overcoat
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Nikolai Gogol POV- third person omniscient Plot- copier who only works and is introvert needs a new coat. He saves up for a few months and buys one. His bully co workers throw him a party, he goes home early, gets mugged and goes around town asking officials to help him. No one does and dies. Pissed, he haunts st petersburg stealing everyone's coats. |
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bartleby the scrivener |
Herman Melville POV- first person, lawyer Setting- wall street NY |
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To build a fire |
Jack London POV third person
A man and his dog set out in really cold weather to a minging camp nine hours away. The man does not know how to combat the cold, and fails to build a fire to warm himself up. After attempting to kill his dog for warmth, he fails and dies by the cold. |
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A&P |
John Updike POV- first person
a boy, Sammy sees some girls walk into his store wearing bathing suits. He admires them greatly and wonders about what they are really like. He believes that he is above the job as a A&P clerk and when his manager scolds the girls Sammy quits. He immediately regrets his decision. |
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Sweat |
Zora Neale Hurston POV Characters- Delia Jones Husband Sykes
Sykes beats and cheats on his girl while she wins all the bread. Everyone in town hates Sykes. He brings a rattlesnake home one day, it gets out and bites him, killing him. Delia rejoices |
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The Man Who Lived Underground |
Richard Wright POV First Person
Fred Daniels is on the run from the police. He decsends into the sewers and amkes a hom for himself where he learns that all men are guilty. |
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A Temporary Matter |
Jhumpa Lahiri Shoba SHukumar Shukumar is a stay at home grad student, he missed his wife givve birth to a dead baby ad she s salty about it. Their marriage has never been the same, and they are both really depressed. Theres been some blackouts, and the two play a game to share intimate facts about each other, they have sex, then Shoba says she's leaving him. Shukumar gets back at her and they both cry in the dark. |
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Indian Camp |
Ernest Hemingway POV- First Person Setting- Indian camp in the woods
Nick is his father's intern. As a doctor, nicks father gets called to an indian camp to deliver a baby. He needs to perfrom a c section and it is successful, but the womans husband kills himself because he could not take his wife's suffering. Nick sees this and is disturbed and asks his father questions about death and suicide. He is sure that he will never die. |
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The Metamorphosis |
Franz Kafka POV- third Person |
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The Story of An Hour |
Kate Chopin POV Louis Mallard's has heart problems and her husband has died, her family knows they need to be careful about telling her. WHen they do, she is secretly stoked about it. Even though her husnband loved her, she looks forward to her newfound independence, the door opens downstairs, and her husband walks in, not involved in a train accident. Louis dies of a heart attack brought on by happiness. The shock of her husband being alive kills her |
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The Swimmer |
John Cheever POV- third person Neddy is a wealthy man living in suburbia, He decides to go home by swimming through people's pool. Each pool he swims in decreases his social standing and by the time is is home, he has his house and his things but nothing else. This is a insight in to the lives of the wealthy middle class. |
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The dead |
James Joyce POV- first Setting- Dublin, feast of epiphany the Morkins are having a party and their favorite nephew attends, Gabriel, he make a social bluncer at the beginning, and feels awkward for much of the night. Miss Ivors accuses him of being a Briton and not loving his country, to which he agrees but is disturbed by how she made her point. He makes a toast annd everyone rejoices because he commends ireland. Gabriel questions his humanity, his inability to communicate and let money talk, and his deisre to control his grilfriend.
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The Chrysanthemums |
John Steinbeck POV- third Setting- Salinas Valley Elisa and Henry Allen live on a fram that just made a lot of money selling cattle. A pot timkerer comes by and alsjdfaldjf |
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Odour of Chrysanthemums |
D.H. Lawrence POV Setting- coal country England Elizabeth is the wife of a miner, Walter, Elizabeth is waiting for her husband at home and goes to investigate. Anothe rminer helps her find him when Elizabeth's mother in law runs in the house exclaiming that Walter is dead. Elizabeth isn't very sad by the passing and is disturbed by it. She is toked in a way because she is not from the area and wants to leave. She is not from the area and |
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A Good Man is hard to find |
Flannery O'Connor POV |
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Management of Grief |
Bhaharati ma;lsdjfa;l
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Haruki Murakami |
The Ice Man |
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Emergency |
Denis Johnson |
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Saboteur |
Ha Jin
Mr. Chiu, Finjin China |
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Job History |
Annie Prouxl Leeland Lee Lori
Leeland lives a life with low job security, switching from job to job, successes and failure follow him. The author writes in short sentances and doesnt soften anything up. |
