City Colleges of Chicago Harold Washington College Literature Analysis

Write an analysis for each of the three texts you chose to read from this module using the correct set of genre module questions below. You will number each question before answering it. For each the three texts you use, you will start your answers with the number 1. You have to answer each question.

Texts:

-A&P by John Updik

– The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

– Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

1. fiction, answer these questions/prompts:
   1. The title of the story, (the date of its original publication)
   2. The author’s name and basic dates
   3. The name (if any) of the central character, together with a description of that character’s main traits or features
   4. Other characters in the story
   5. A short description of the setting
   6. The narrator of the story (to identify him or her is, of course, to define the point of view from which the story is told)
   7. A terse summary of the main events of the story, given in chronological order
   8. A description of the general tone of the story; the author’s apparent feelings toward the central character or the main events
   9. Some comments on the style in which the story is written (brief illustrative quotations are helpful as space permits)
   10. Whatever kinds of irony the story contains, and what they contribute to the story
   11. In a sentence, the story’s main theme
   12. Leading symbols (if the story has any), with a guess at whatever each symbol suggests
   13. What was your overall impression of the text?
   14. What is one question you have about the text overall?