6 books

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:

Read the required 6 books, and write on the theme of "epiphanies."  What are the epiphanies of the characters or writers?  What epiphanies are you having?

All essays must meet the following length requirements:

4 pages, typed double-spaced

All essays are due the first week of school.

Epiphanies

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, James Joyce
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Pagoda, Patricia Powell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Love In the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Carcia Marquez
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
The Color of Water, James McBride
Secrets, Nuruddin Farah
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Immortality, Milan Kundera
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, Ntozake Shange
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain, R.O. Butler
Naked, David Sedaris
Cider House Rules, John Irving
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Human Comedy, William Saroyan
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Make Lemonade, Virginia Woolf
The Figured Wheel, Robert Pinsky
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Selected Poems, Rita Dove
Idylls of the King, Alfred Tennyson
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Invisible Thread, Yoshiko Uchida
Lust of Life, Irving Stone
Manchild In the Promised Land, Claude Brown
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Homecoming, Harold Pinter
Medea, Euripedes