Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"

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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

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Lee K. Abbott's "One of Star Wars, One of Doom"

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Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal"

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James Agee's "A Mother's Tale"

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Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

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Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

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Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"

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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

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Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost A Man"

Please post your responses to Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost A Man" here. You're free to respond in any way that makes sense to you, but, if you're stuck, you might consider:

• What this story says about masculinity
• How violence figures into this text
• What Young Jeezy's "Gangsta Grillz" has to do with Wright's story
• How Dave's reaction to his violent act provides some new meaning to the story
• How Dave conceives of himself racially, and what that means in terms of his masculinity

Post your responses as comments to this post. If you like, you're free to respond to the responses of other students, so long as the are very close to 250 words or more. If I were you, I'd compose my response in a word processing program and then copy & paste it into the comments box so as not to lose your comment if you press the "back" button.