Part 1

write at least 300 words in your post. For each story, complete the following; then answer the questions that follow.

Read the following two short stories: "Sonny's Blues" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" What strikes you as significant about these two stories? What is the author's purpose for telling them? Who do you think the central character is in each story? For each story, write a five sentence summary that includes the following: (1) What happens at the beginning? (2) What happens during the rising action? (3) What happens during the climax? (4) What happens during the falling action? (5) How does the story end?

Part 2

write at least 300 words in your post. For each story, complete the following; then answer the questions that follow

Please respond to this discussion forum after you have read Chapters 2 and 3 and "Story of an Hour" and "A&P."

(1) Who are the narrators of these two stories? Would you classify either as being an "unreliable narrator"? Why or why not?

(2) Using Freytag's pyramid (see chapter 2), describe the plot of both stories indicating the key moments in the pyramid in your description.