Asterisks denote selections new to this edition Chapter One: Narration
* George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Langston Hughes: Salvation
Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch. 2; Noda, Growing Up Asian in America, Ch. 5
Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman
* Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language
Related Reading: Naylor, Meanings of a Word Ch. 4; Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7
* David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Chapter Two: Description
James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown
Related Reading: Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7
Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth
N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1
E.B. White: Once More to the Lake
Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd
Related Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch. 9
* Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1; Hughes: Salvation, Ch. 1
Chapter Three: Process Analysis
Alexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp
Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Sue Hubbell: Honey Harvest
Richard Marius: Writing Drafts
Adam Goodheart: How to Paint a Fresco
* Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Related Reading: Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp, Ch. 3; Cole, The Arrow of Time, Ch. 8Chapter Four: Definition
Susan Sontag: Women's Beauty: Put Down of Power Source?
Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty?
Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch. 10; Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch. 10
Gloria Steinem: Erotica and Pornography
Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple
* Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness..., Ch. 1
* Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
Related Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch. 5Chapter Five: Classification and Division
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Donald Hall: Four Kinds of Reading
Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch. 1
Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying
William Lutz: Doublespeak
* Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the ImaginationChapter Six: Comparison and Contrast
May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in Contrasts
Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi
Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7; Goodman, The Company Man, Ch. 4
* Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleChapter Seven: Example and Illustration
Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition
Peter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of Eating
Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners
Barbara Huttman: A Crime of Compassion
Brent Staples: Black men and Public Space
Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch. 6
* Franz Kafka, Letter to His FatherChapter Eight: Cause and Effect
Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy
Shelby Steele: White Guilt
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance...., Ch. 2
Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably
* K.C. Cole: The Arrow of Time
Related Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color..., Ch. 3
* Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too LateChapter Nine: Analogy
Plato: The Myth of the Cave
Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Alice Walker: Am I Blue?
Nicols Fox: Gawk Show
Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic PrisonChapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion
ARGUMENT
Welfare Reform
Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse?
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Related Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch. 8
Free SpeeCh.
Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?
Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting "Fire!"
Rape
* Wendy Kaminer: Virtual Rape
Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex War
Susan Jacoby: Common Decency
PERSUASION
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Related Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch. 4
Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Related Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch. 1
Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny?
Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic
* Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife
* Naomi Shihab Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists
* Jonathan Kozol: The Details of LifeChapter Eleven: Mixed Strategies
Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving
* Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War
Related Reading: Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists, Ch. 10
* Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter
Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch. 2
* Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse
* Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme
Related Reading: Goodman, The Company Man, Ch. 4 |
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