Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.

In class we will discuss proposals for topics for this paper. You should try to come up with a tentative to discuss in class.

Examples of Topics: (you are not limited to these)

Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.

Compare Harry to the dead Leopard from the first lines of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. What are each of them symbolically or actually climbing? Does the image of the hyena come into play here?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?