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1. Familial and/or generational conflict – nursing assignment tutor
Familial and/or generational conflictInstructions:1) Analyze the significance of familial
and/or generational conflict in two of the following texts: A Rose for Emily, Everything that
Rises Must Converge, Dogs in Winter, and Simple Recipes.2) Analyze the portrayal of
women of color in Oryx and Crake and Rachel.3) Analyze the representation of motherhood
and/or parenting in two of the following: When Twilight Falls on the Stump Lots, Little
Pilgrims, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Dogs in Winter, and Simple Recipes.4) The
domestic realm, traditionally a realist space, is depicted as a gothic space in several of the
texts we have read this semester. Analyze how two of the following texts draw on gothic
conventions to evoke the dangers/fears/anxieties that lie behind the seemingly homely
veneer of the domestic realm: The Fall of the House of Usher, A Rose for Emily, The Yellow
Wallpaper, and The Turn of the Screw.5) Analyze how Oryx and Crake and Rachel
interrogate essentialist/traditional understandings of nature and/or the human.6) Several
of the texts we have read this semester feature writerly characters who stand as figures of
authorship and, as in some cases, as figures for the author him/herself (i.e., Del Jordan in
Alice Munro’s The Flats Road). Analyze how two of the following texts represent the figure
of the writer, taking into consideration the significance of this figure to the broader
thematic concerns of the texts in question: Dracula, The Turn of the Screw, The Yellow
Wallpaper, Everything that Rises Must Converge, We Must Sit Opposite, and The Flats
Road.7) Analyze the significance of geographical locale in two of the following: A Rose for
Emily, Everything that Rises Must Converge, and The Flats Road.8) Analyze the function of
irony and/or satire in two of the following: Everything that Rises Must Converge, A Rose for
Emily, and We Must Sit Opposite.9) Analyze the theme of confinement/imprisonment in two
of the following: The Fall of the House of Usher, Dracula, The Yellow Wallpaper, and The
Turn of the Screw.10) Analyze the treatment of psychological trauma in Dogs in Winter and
Simple Recipes.11) Analyze the treatment of outsider figures in two of the following: A Rose
for Emily, Everything that Rises Must Converge, The Flats Road, Dogs in Winter, Simple
Recipes, Oryx and Crake, and Rachel.12) Examine the relationship between scientific
rationalism/enlightenment humanism and folklore/superstition in Dracula and The Fall of
the House of Usher.13) Examine the relationship between empiricism/scientific rationalism
and myth/storytelling in Oryx and Crake and Rachel.14) You are welcome to develop an
essay topic of your own which engages with any two of our texts, but you must present your
topic for approval no later than March 21st. “Looking for a Similar Assignment? Get Expert
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