English 9 Honors - Short Story Unit
Dr. Gen

Reading and Analysis

Please study the handout of my analysis of the “The Most Dangerous Game.” Use this handout as a model for your own analysis. You need to (1) provide a brief summary of the short story assigned to you. Include the elements of short story (plot, crisis, conflict, resolution, setting, point of view), (2) an analysis of the character development, and (3) a discussion of the themes. Please be very thorough. See sample

Analyses must be typed for duplication for the class. You will also lead the class in a discussion of the short story.

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell (pp. 84-98) Arrangement
"Phaethon" by Bernard Evslin (pp. 26-31) Arrangement
"With All Flags Flying" by Anne Tyler (pp. 68-74) Arrangement
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst (pp. 130-139) Arrangement *
“Dawn” by Raymond Barrio (pp. 140-146) Arrangement
“American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer (pp. 293-302) Orange *
“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell (pp. 306-313) Orange
“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (pp. 151-157) Orange
“The Osage Orange Tree” by William Stafford (pp. 104-110) Orange
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant (pp. 26-35) Orange *
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (pp. 207-215) Orange *
“The Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alverez (pp. 663-674) Orange *
“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty (pp. 162-167) Orange
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London (pp. 517-535) Orange *
“The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela (pp. 185-190) Orange
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel G. Marquez (pp. 863-871) Orange
“Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier (pp. 74-87) Orange *
“A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote (pp. 272-285) Orange *
The Beginning of Something” by Sue Ellen Bridges (pp. 324-338) Orange *

Your writing assignment for this unit will be to write a short story which is a sequel to one of the short stories assigned for reading.