Select one of the questions below. Write a well developed essay of around 600 words in response to the question. Be sure to use concrete, specific details as well as a minimum of 8 quotations from the text to support your thesis.
Part 1
1.Compare/Contrast Oates’ Where are you going? Where have you been? With Updike’ s A&P. What is the nature of the conflict? How do the protagonists change?
2.Looking at Carver’s Cathedral and Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter, show how an evolving society influences human relationships.
3.How does an encounter transform characters in two of our selections?