What theme emerge within winter dreams by f scott fitzgerald/English
Choose TWO works (one poem and one short story)
Track A: CLASS and ECONOMICS
“Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Bitter Fruit of the Tree” by Sterling A. Brown
“Come to the Waldorf-Astoria” OR “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
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Instructions:
Using your track of choice, please answer the following questions pertaining to the selections provided. Please use complete, substantive sentences to answer the questions. Support your answers with evidence from the works of literature you’re analyzing, by quoting appropriate words, phrases, and lines.
1. Given the events of the times, what themes emerge within the selections you chose, and do they seem appropriate for the time period? How do these themes fit or stray from what you have learned about racism and/or The American Dream?
2. Going back to what was covered about symbolism, what symbols are apparent in these works? How are these symbols used by the authors to communicate the message/theme(s) of the works?
3. Between the short story and the poem in your selected track, what similarities and/or differences in literary movements do you recognize?
