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= Unit 6 Literature =

Part 1: Literature Confronts the Everyday
Flannery O'Connor ............ The Life You Save May Be Your Own ....................................................... Short Story .......... 972 Bernard Malamud ............. The First Seven Years ............................................................................. Short Story .......... 988 John Updike ..................... The Brown Chest .................................................................................... Short Story ......... 1002 Robert Lowell ................... Hawthorne .............................................................................................. Poem ................. 1014 Robert Penn Warren ......... Gold Glade ............................................................................................. Poem ................. 1017 William Stafford ................ Traveling Through the Dark ....................................................................... Poem ................ 1019 Theodore Roethke ............. The Light Comes Brighter ........................................................................ Poem ................. 1021 ........................................ The Adamant .......................................................................................... Poem ................ 1022 Anne Tyler ........................ Average Waves in Unprotected Waters ..................................................... Short Story ........ 1028

N. Scott Momaday ............ //from// The Names .................................................................................... Nonfiction ........... 1042 Naomi Shihab Nye ............ Mint Snowball ........................................................................................ Nonfiction ........... 1047 Joy Harjo ......................... Suspended ............................................................................................ Nonfiction ........... 1049

Alice Walker .................... Everyday Use ........................................................................................ Short Story ......... 1056 Maxine Hong Kingston ..... //from// The Woman Warrior ........................................................................ Nonfiction ............ 1070 Julia Alvarez .................... Antojos ................................................................................................. Short Story .......... 1082 Lorna Dee Cervantes ........ Freeway 280 .......................................................................................... Poem ................. 1098 Martin Espada ................. Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper ...................................................... Poem ................. 1100 Diana Chang ................... Most Satisfied By Snow ........................................................................... Poem ................. 1101 Simon Ortiz .................... Hunger in New York City .......................................................................... Poem ................. 1102 Garret Hongo .................. What For ................................................................................................ Poem ................. 1103

Carson McCullers ........... //from// The Mortgaged Heart .................................................................... Nonfiction ............ 1112 William Safire ................. Onomatopoeia ..................................................................................... Nonfiction ............ 1115 Ian Frazier ...................... Coyote Vs. Acme ................................................................................ Nonfiction ........... 1118

Sandra Cisneros ............. Straw Into Gold .................................................................................... Nonfiction .......... 1128 Rita Dove ....................... For the Love of Books ........................................................................... Nonfiction .......... 1133 Amy Tan ........................ Mother Tongue ..................................................................................... Nonfiction .............. 1136

James Baldwin ............... The Rockpile ........................................................................................ Short Story ............ 1148 John Hersey .................. //from// Hiroshima ...................................................................................... Nonfiction .............. 1162 Randall Jarrell ............... Losses .................................................................................................. Poem .................... 1173 .................................... The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner .......................................................... Poem .................... 1174 Silvia Plath ................... Mirror .................................................................................................... Poem ................... 1180 Robert Hayden .............. Frederick Douglas .................................................................................. Poem ................... 1183 .................................... [|Runagate Runagate] ................................................................................. Poem ................... 1184

Colleen McElroy ........... [|For My Children] ...................................................................................... Poem ................... 1192 Louise Erdrich .............. [|Bidwell Ghost] ......................................................................................... Poem ................... 1195