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| Eudora Welty - Phoenix Jackson walks to town for medicine for her grandson. She is met by a racist hunter that tells her to go home. She goes to the store and gets her grandson a windmill |
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| John Cheever - Jim and irene got a new radio and it can listen to other rooms. They don't want to be like everyone else with all the problem but in reality they are |
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| Ralph Ellison from The Invisible Man - 12 black guys are blind folded in front of a crowd of wealthy white men. They are humiliated and people take bets. |
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| James Baldwin - Son looking back on his father dieing, he did not want to stop hating him and deal with the pain |
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| Tenesee Williams - Maggie is trying to but the fire back in brick, brick is upset because skipper killed himself and drinks heavily, its big daddys birthday and hes dieing, he thinks hes fine but he has cancer |
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| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio |
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| James Wright - About high school football games and how huge they are, its set in a little town with proud parents ashamed to go home, its more than a game its a ritual that takes everyone away |
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| James Wright - Two guys are driving and admiring horses in a field |
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| Marge Pierce - A girl that is not hard wired to want dolls and fake ovens, she is self conscious because of her legs and nose, she cuts off her legs and nose and dies, they say she looks perfect in her coffin |
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| Flannery O'Connor - Set in a rural town in Georgia, Mrs. Turpin thinks shes a great christian but she thanks god for not making her life like everyone else, she is contradictory and a know it all, Mary grace throws a book at her for a wake up call and Mrs. Turpin thinks its a sign from god and calls mary grace an old warthog from hell |
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| Flannery O'Connor - Set in a rural town in Georgia, Mrs. Turpin thinks shes a great christian but she thanks god for not making her life like everyone else, she is contradictory and a know it all, Mary grace throws a book at her for a wake up call and Mrs. Turpin thinks its a sign from god and calls mary grace an old warthog from hell |
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| John Updike - Two parents are trying to figure out when and how to tell their kids they are separating, he is trying to get their approval and they tell them over dinner |
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| Tani Bambara - Ms. Moore goes to show them how others live, about inequality with american capitalism |
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| Where are you going, Where have you been? |
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| Joyce Carol Oates - 15 yr old Connie thinks shes got it figured out, she has 2 faces, one for at home and one for everywhere else, Arnold friend is trying to get connie in his car |
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| Raymond Carver - Their lives are without incident, while there is a guy in a coma but they say everything is ok |
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| Bobby Ann Mason - Daily life of norma jean and leroy, they married at 18 and their 4 month old died at the movies, he is injured and back with norma, he wants to be a good husband and wants to build her a log cabin, they go to Shiloh for alone time and she tells him shes leaving him |
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| Terrance McNally - Andre is dead of aids and they are at his memorial service, cal is the boyfriend and everyone is open about him being gay, his moms not and shes alone now |
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| Alice Walker - About two sisters Dee and Maggie, Dee has had her way for a long time but she leaves and comes back, maggie is burnt in a fire, the mom wants to give the families quilts to maggie but dee wants them, dee says their her heritage but maggie says she can remember her grandma dee without it, Mom gives the quilts to maggie |
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| Tobias Wolff - Wife asks if the husband would marry her if she was black, the husband tries to show her facts while she just wants him to say yes, she just wants him to say he loves her, in the end he calls her a stranger because he doesn't know her as well as he thought |
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