Literary Response

 

I attached the story in a word file below. thanks

Assignment Requirements:

-  4 pages double spaced.  12 point font Times New Roman.

-  MLA citation

- You need to include quotes from the reading

Assignment Description: 

Write: 

- How the story reveals something about the time in which it was written/published

- How the story connects to ideas about gender as a social or biological construction

- How the story portrays a theme (how we learn to understand the world, how technology may save us, how technology will undo us, how the world will end) (These are over-simplified, but hopefully you are starting to understand.)

- How the story reveals a universal and timeless characteristic about people

- How the story offers a social or political commentary on [insert specific topic]

- How does the main character change by the end of the story? Is it for better or worse?

- How the author develops a particular character or idea throughout the story

- How symbols and literary devices are used within the story

- What the story says about [insert topic (some common ones are race relations, gender relations, people’s fears of technology, people’s memories, etc.]