You are required to respond to ONE of the following discussion topics. Your reply needs to include at least five sentences and one quote from the text.
1. Explore the symbolism in one story from this week assigned readings.
2. Read the first two paragraphs of Steinbecks Chrysanthemums carefully. In what way does the setting of the story foreshadow what follows?
3. Explore one literary device used in Poes The Cask of Amontillado.
4. In Ralph Ellisons King of the Bingo Game what wonderful thing does the protagonist think he has discovered once he is onstage? Why cant or wont he let go of the button, even when the police arrive?
5. Some consider the character of Arnold as an allegoric image of the demon in Joyce Carol Oates story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. Do you agree with this idea in the story? Why or why not?
