For the first class, April 3, 2000, read the following stories from The Collected Stories by Earnest Hemingway:  "Indian Camp," "The Killers," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "In Another Country" and "The Big, Two-Hearted River."

Write a 3-page analysis answer the following question:
In these stories, why does Hemingway have Nick Adams be primarily an observer of the actions of others?

(see the larger assignment sheet for the first class at:  firstassign.html
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We read a book  a week, more or less.
 

April 3 Hemingway   "Indian Camp," "The Killers," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wi
                               "In Another Country," and "The Big Two-Hearted River
4/5                           "A Clean, Well-lighted Place,"
                                "Soldier's Home"
4/7                            "The Short, Happy Life of Francis MacComber"
                                 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

4/10-15     F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

4/17-22     William Faulkner, Light in August

4/24         Nathaniel West, Ring Lardner

4/26-28    Zora Neale Hurston,

5/1         Midterm Exam

5/3-5   Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

5/12-16 Toni Morrison, Jazz

5/19-26  Paper Due.  Fran Liebowitz

5/29-6/2  Douglas Coupland, Life After God
 
 

Final Exam