Discussion: Answer any four of the following questions. Think of your responses as condensed essays—get right to the point and leave out any unnecessary filler. Be sure to support your points with...

Discussion: Answer anyfourof the following questions. Think of your responses as condensed essays—get right to the point and leave out any unnecessary filler. Be sure to support your points with specifics from the works. Remember to use your grammar and spelling skills. Each answer should be in the form of a well-developed paragraph or two. Each answer should have approximately 150 words or more. When quoting or paraphrasing prose, be sure to provide page numbers in your citations, using MLA style. (See OWL Guide, linked on the Library home page,for more information.) Answers should be submitted to Turnitin.com. Due Date: 25 points each

1. First of all, defineModernismas a literary movement. List some of the traits associated with Modernism and provide a historical context. (If you like, you may discuss Modernism in other art forms as well.) Then discuss how Modernism can be seen in anytwoof the following works: “The Sculptor’s Funeral,”Pale Horse, Pale Rider,any poem by Langston Hughes, any poem by Claude McKay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” “Sweat,” “Hands,” “Adventure,” “Mother,” “The Man Who Was Almost a Man.”
2. Consider the depiction of small town life in Willa Cather’s “The Sculptor’s Funeral” and the stories by Sherwood Anderson.(We read “Hands,” “Adventure” and “Mother.”) What vision of small town life do you see in these works? How does this portrayal of the “village” compare to your own observations and/or experiences of small town people, customs, and values in the early 21^stcentury? (Be sure to give some specifics from the works in your answer.)
3. What, in your opinion, is the most important scene in Katherine Ann Porter’sPale Horse, Pale Rider?Why? How is it related to the novel’s themes? How does the scene fit in the novel’s overall structure?
4. Discuss the use of symbols in anytwoof the following works:Pale Horse, Pale Riderby Katherine Ann Porter,“Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton,“Hands” by Sherwood Anderson, “The Sculptor’s Funeral” by Willa Cather “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright. Make sure that you give at least three examples (total) in your answer. (Hint: In some case, you could consider the symbolic significance of the titles.)
5. Katherine Ann Porter was involved in revolutionary politics in Mexico, wrote about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and commented on fascism in her novelShip of Fools(published in 1962, but set on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic to Germany in August XXXXXXXXXXIn what ways do the political and the personal intersect inPale Horse, Pale Rider? Although the short novel is set in 1918, what does it have to say to us in the 21^stcentury? Be sure to provide some specifics in your answer.
6. In your own words, what is the thesis of “How It Feels To Be Colored Me”? That is, what is Hurston saying about her race and her identity? How does she use personal narrative to make her points? And how does her take on African-American life (as seen in this essay and in her short story “Sweat”) compare to any one of the male African-American writers we have read from this period (Wright, McKay, Hughes)?
7. Edith Wharton is best known for her stories about the upper class society (usually New Yorkers) of the early Twentieth Century. What commentary is she making about this class and its rules and conventions in “The Other Two” and “Roman Fever”? Also: In what ways do the stories reflect the changing times? (Consider that Wharton, who was publishing from the late 19^thcentury until the 1930s, is a bridge between Realism and Modernism.)