A) While going through Making Literature Matter this semester, looking for poems and short stories to write about for our papers, I came across some good pieces that could be a good addition to the schedule.
The first piece I would recommend would a play written by William Shakespere called Othello. Othello is a well written play that I think can be a good piece to use psychological criticism. The characters are deep and I think could be studied in depth by our course. Because Shakespeare's personal life was not well known I think that a class can interpret the characters without bias because we don't know the author's personality in depth. Also, Shakespeare is one of the most well known authors of his time, and I think it would be great to get into something written by the best!
The second piece I would recommend would be a play written by Pat Mora called Legal Alien. Although this poem doesn't correlate with what we are learning in the future, I believe that it would be a good poem to address. Legal Alien is about the struggles that a Mexican-American has to deal with everyday. Not being accepted by either race. I think this would be very influential seeing that the Mexican-American population in southern California is high, and it addresses a real problem that is a reality every day.
The third piece I picked for this assignment is a short story written by Charles Perrault called Little Red Riding Hood. We have all heard this fairy tale as kids, and I think it would be fun to get into as adults. There are lessons that she learns and the different paths she takes in the story that I think would be great to be able to analyze.
The fourth piece I picked is a punishment poem written by Carolyn Forche called The Colonel. This would be a great piece to use psychological criticism on because "the colonel" in the poem is a very deep dark character. In the poem he gives off a mean personification and slings out negative innuendos that I think would be fun to analyze.
The last piece I chose is a popular story that was written by Bobbie Ann Mason called Shiloh. Shiloh is an amazing story that won America's hearts when it was made into a movie. The characters in the story are very well written, and Mason gives the story a great meaning. Everyone who saw the movie liked the story line and plot. As a student I think this would be an awesome story to go over, I think that it would get the whole class involved because of how well written it is!
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