Choose a course concept we learned this year (Orientalism, eurocentrism, colonialism, trauma studies, etc.) and use it to compare two short stories.

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Hello, I need a thesis completed within 4 and 1/2 hours time. It is a 3-5 page essay, using MLA Format and Works Cited.


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Essay Instructions

This essay will be a comparison and contrast essay. You will choose two texts from the latter half of the course, and write an essay that answers one of the questions below:

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Question 1: Choose a course concept we learned this year (Orientalism, eurocentrism, colonialism, trauma studies, etc.) and use it to compare two short stories.

Question 2: Make a comparison of the use of genre in two short stories (horror, sci fi, trauma literature, realism, satire, etc.).

Question 3: Compare the use and importance of gender/sexuality in two short stories (this can be about gender and/or heteronormativity).


The texts to sort from are 

  1. Thomas King's "A Short History of Indians in Canada"
  2. Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
  3. The stories from Godless, including: "On the Wings of this Prayer"
  4. "The Fleshing"
  5. "Tony Toenails"
  6. "Lizard People"
  7. "The Contract"
  8. "Feeding the Fire"




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