Choose three of the following books and read thoroughly, paying special attention to the way each author constructs meaning through the use of literary devices, such as dialogue, mood, setting, theme, tone, etc. Be prepared for writing/discussion on the first day of class. Please bring the texts to class, and any notes taken during reading.
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Cather, Willa – My Antonia
Crane, Stephen – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying Light in August
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Blithedale Romance
The House of the Seven Gables
Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell To Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
Melville, Herman – Billy Budd
O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
In the Lake of the Woods
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of Our Discontent
Vonnegut, Kurt– Slaughterhouse 5
Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth