POINT OF VIEW: In-Class Exercise



POINT OF VIEW: In-Class Exercise

LIT 201-200 Sarah L. Dye

DIRECTIONS: Read carefully and follow exactly, please!

Follow the directions below and, use the blue box provided in class, and then turn it in at the end of the class meeting TONIGHT. You may use your textbooks, handouts, class notes, reader response forms, and/or dictionary/thesaurus.

Choose ONE of the following stories which we have read already in the course.

1. Anderson, “Hands,” p. 28

Atwood, “Happy Endings,” p. 33

Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” p. 37

Banks, “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat,” p. 68

Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” p. 75

Cather, “Paul’s Case,” p. 117

Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” p. 158

Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street,” p. 162

Erdrich, “The Red Convertible,” p. 277

Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” p. 286

Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” p. 313

Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants,” p. 350

Hurston, “Sweat,” p. 355

Jewett, “A White Herron,” p. 382

Joyce, “Araby,” p. 400

Kincaid, “Girl,” p. 477

Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” p. 493

Mason, “Shiloh,” p. 511

Mansfield, “The Fly,” p. 5506

Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief,” p. 565

Munro, “Miles City, Montana,” p. 578

O’Brien, “The Things They Carried,” p. 608

O’Connor, “Good Country People,” p. 634

Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing,” p. 671

At the beginning of your essay, (1) identify the ORIGINAL point of view the original author has chosen to use in the version of the story in our textbook. Be as specific as possible in your identification (use the types and subtypes such as 1st person major character point of view or 3rd person slanted point of view).

Next, (2) identify the new point of view with which you plan to retell the story. I would prefer that you choose a totally different point of view from the original even to the extent of changing the pronouns from 1st person to 3rd person or vice versa for instance.

Finally, (3) retell the story in your own words in that new point of view. Please try to limit your retelling of the story to no more than one or two pages (250-500 words) at most. Just summarize the story in your new point of view; you needn’t be as detailed as the original author was, in other words. All you are being asked to do in your retelling is to prove you understand the differences between the two points of view by illustrating that.

Take no more than an hour to complete this writing exercise. Your A/F grade on this assignment will be based EQUALLY all three of the items you are being asked to do as indicated above.

Good luck with this assignment.

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