Write 3 paragraphs, see instructions below:

1) Prompt One (100 words): What is Morrison doing with race and racial stereotypes in the short story "Recitatif"? Do your first assumptions about which
character is which race change throughout the story? What postmodern elements can you identify? (For background on postmodern literature, please see here.)

2) Prompt Two (100 words): The cultural critic Theodor Adorno was famous for saying that there could be no poetry after Auschwitz, and indeed, many poets remained
silent on the subject for many years. Plath has been widely criticized for her use of Holocaust imagery in "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy." Why do you
think she uses these images? What is the effect of the references to the Holocaust in these poems?

3) Prompt Three (75 words): More than thirty years after the first publication of "Going to Meet the Man," American writers and film directors are often
faulted for imagining the psychological life of someone of the other gender or from a different race or culture. How does Baldwin succeed or fail in his representation
of Jesse, a white deputy sheriff in a small southern town? What messages are being conveyed about racial violence?