Florida Atlantic University The Open Boat Short Story Discussion

Please discuss ONE of the following in an essay approximately five paragraphs long. Be sure to use specifics from the works to support your points.

1. Compare and/or contrast the ideas of Booker T. Washington in Up from Slavery and of W.E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk as they advocate for social justice.

2. Discuss how an idea presented by W.E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folks is also explored in one of the poems below.

Paul Dunbar’s

“We Wear the Mask”

Claude McKay’s

“If We Must Die”

“America”

Langston Hughes’

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

“Mother to Son”

“I, Too”

“Theme for English B”

3. Discuss Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” as it explores Naturalism.

4. Discuss how one or more of the works below comments on the status of women during the era.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”