historical context esssay due 10/31/17

 historical context essay on either of the story or poem

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890), Ambrose Bierce

“A Dark Brown Dog” (1893), Stephen Crane

“Young Goodman Brown” (1835), Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Minister’s Black Veil” (1832), Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe

“Scarlet Stockings,” (1869), Louisa May Alcott

“A Jury of Her Peers” (1917), Susan Glaspell

“On the Gull’s Road” (1908), Willa Cather

“The Split Cherry Tree” (1939), Jesse Stuart

“Lorry Raja” (2011), Madhuri Vijay

“Bluebell Meadow” (1975), Benedict Kiely

“City Lovers” (1975), Nadine Gordimer

Poems

“Daddy” (1960), Sylvia Plath

“Still I Rise” (1978) Maya Angelous