Required readings:  Swaddling Clothes by Yukio Mishima; The Guest by Albert Camus; Sweat by Zora Neale Hurtson.1. Select 1 passage from ONE of the short stories you have read. (The words passage and quotation are used interchangeably and mean the same thing.)Your passage may be any length. You may also piece together multiple passages using ellipses (…) in between.Be sure to include the paragraph number(s) after the passage, like this (para. 27) or if piecing together multiple passages, like this (para. 27, 54).2. Write a short summary of the passage (1-3 sentences).This is just to get the summary out of your system and to be able to focus on an analysis.3. Analyze the passage you have chosen (3-4 sentences).What does it show you as a reader?Can you apply a theoretical lenses to the passage? What does that reveal about the passage?What is your interpretation of the passage?*Remember to avoid summarizing the passage and making overgeneralizations based on the text.

4. Write a well-developed analysis of the passage that you chose. Length one page. In a one page paper, you must present an organized and structured literary analysis of the passage.The purpose of the essay is to discuss the themes, issues, and symbolism that you view as significant within the text, as represented by this passage. In other words, your essay isa close reading and analysis of a particular passage, and your essay will analyze this passage.  Your essay may cite other passages from the text as well as the initial passage.- Example of this assignment:1. Passage from the text:Quote from “Near Pala” Whites by Norman Rush “Nan said to Tess, but projecting for the benefit of the front, ‘Truly, are we so superior as we think?  I wonder little.  When we first moved in at the mine, we did something at the house so stupid am still in pain.  There were two pawpaw trees growing side by side by the house, one thriving with nice big pawpaws on it and the other sick-looking and leaf -less – dead looking.  Well, we thought it was plain what we should do: take down the dead tree.  So we hauled and pushed on the trunk of the poor tree and strained and pulled it over – uprooted it,Gareth and myself.  It was his idea: we must just straight off do this, get it over.  Then, with the crash, the servants come out.  They had funny looks on.  Dineo said, so quietly, ‘Oh, Mma, youhave killed the male.’  We didn’t understand.  It seems the pawpaw grow in pairs, couples, male and female.  The male tree looks like a phallus – no foliage to it, really.  The female needs the male in order to bear.  They take years to reach the heights ours had.  Then the female died.  The staff had been eating pawpaws from our tree for years.  It was a humiliation.” (21).

Analysis:Norman Rush’s short story “Near Pala” deals with the relationship between white European sand black Africans in Botswana, as well as with the relationship between white males and females.  Through the dialogue of two white English couples driving through Botswana, Rush draws a parallel between these two complex relationships.  Rush makes clear that in both of these relationships there is an oppressor and an oppressed; while the blacks are oppressed by the whites, the women are oppressed by the men. Rush is also pointing out that the oppression of both of these groups of people has led them to depend on their oppressors in one way or another. The passage that I have chosen to illustrate these aspects of Rush’s story is like an allegory within the story.  In it the complexities of the relationships of blacks and whites and women and men are revealed.  Nan begins the story with a preface that lets the reader know that this story is going to debase the idea that the whites are superior to blacks.  It does this in avery literal way, by explaining how a couple of white people (herself anDB3,Business & Finance,,

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