Monday, February 22, 2016

Could you give me some topics of essays which address the following stories: The Postmaster, Dusk, If, The Road Not Taken, Case for the Defence.

There are many different questions one could create in
regards to the following short stories.


"The Postmaster"-
Rabindranath Tagore


1. How does the story address longing
and separation?


2. How does the story address the
importance of companionship and dependency?


"Dusk"-
Saki


1. What is Saki saying about "judging a book by its
cover?"


2. What is Saki saying about human
nature?


"IF"- Rudyard
Kipling


1. How does Kipling example manhood and leadership
in the poem?


2. How does Kipling show the importance of
gaining righteousness with being self-righteous?


"The Road
Not Taken"- Robert Frost


1. Although a Modernist, how is
the poem characteristic of poetry from a Romantic
point-of-view?


2. What role does nature play in the
poem?


3. What is Frost trying to say about the paths
mankind chooses to take?


"The Case For the Defense"- Graham
Green


1. How did Green's left-handed political views bleed
into the text?


2. What historical happening influenced the
text?

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