TO T HE ST UDEN T ................................... xii UNIT ONE Rites of Passage The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant W.D. Wetherell short story .............................. 2 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Oranges Gary Soto poem ................................ 11 from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou autobiography ............................ 14 Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing short story .............................. 30 P OEM S OF PA ss AGE First Lesson Phillip Booth poem .............................. 45 On Turning 10 Billy Collins poem ............................... 46 Hanging Fire Audre Lorde poem ............................... 48 Vegetarian Enough Annie Choi autobiography .............................. 50 from My Forbidden Face Latifa autobiographical narrative ........................... 62 Unfinished Business Elisabeth Kübler-Ross interview .......................... 72 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION “Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning” Alice Walker poem .............................. 80 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING Introduction to Shelf Life Gary Paulsen book preface ............................. 82 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Autobiographical Narrative .......... 90 iv n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT Two Family Ties The Scarlet Ibis James Hurst short story ............................... 96 from Riding The Bus with My Sister Rachel Simon memoir ................................112 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote short story ............................ 124 P OEM S OF MO T HER S AND GRANDMO T HER S Memory Lucille Clifton poem ............................ 141 The Courage That My Mother Had Edna St. Vincent Millay poem ...................... 142 Lineage Margaret Walker poem .......................... 142 My Brother’s Keeper Jay Bennett short story ............................... 144 from Letters to a Young Brother Hill Harper letter .................................. 160 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Wild Geese Mary Oliver poem .............................. 168 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING Grandfather’s Blessing Julia Alvarez autobiography ............................ 170 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION I Remember My Father’s Hands Lisa Suhair Majaj poem ........................... 180 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Short Story ................. 182 v n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT THREE The Forces of Nature The Interlopers Saki short story .................................... 188 from Of Wolves and Men Barry Holstun Lopez essay ........................... 196 P OEM S OF NA T URE Birches Robert Frost poem ............................. 204 Haiku Kaga no Chiyo poem ............................ 206 Haiku Basho¯ poem .................................. 207 Spring is like a perhaps hand E. E. Cummings poem ............................ 208 from An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore nonfiction ................................. 210 TS UNAMI 2004 The Deadliest Tsunami in History? National Geographic informational article ................ 221 Orphans Give Indian Couple Will to Live; 2004 Tsunami Killed Their Son, Two Daughters Shaikh Azizur Rahman newspaper article ................ 227 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Wave Dale Wisely poem .............................. 230 The Birds Daphne du Maurier novella ........................... 232 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION “Hope” is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson poem ........................... 270 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING Knee-Deep in Its Absence David Petersen essay ............................... 272 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Nature Poetry ................ 280 vi n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT FOUR Other Worlds A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury short story ............................. 286 Nolan Bushnell David E. Brown article .............................. 302 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Richard Brautigan poem .......................... 310 Nethergrave Gloria Skurzynski short story ............................312 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber short story ............................. 326 The Mystery of China’s Celtic Mummies Clifford Coonan article .............................. 334 The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Gabriel García Márquez short story....................... 344 THE WORLD OF POE T RY Beware: Do Not Read This Poem Ishmael Reed poem................................. 355 The Republic of Poetry Martin Espada poem ................................ 357 The Secret Denise Levertov poem .............................. 359 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Critical Essay: Science Fiction ....... 362 vii n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT FIVE Crossing Borders Bridge of the Gods Anonymous myth ................................. 368 Borders Thomas King short story ............................. 376 Delfino II: Diez in the Desert Sam Quinones biography ............................. 390 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Mexicans Begin Jogging Gary Soto poem ............................... 404 P OEM S AC RO ss T HE DIVIDE Mending Wall Robert Frost poem ............................. 407 I Am the Land. I Wait Marina de Bellagente poem ........................ 409 Your World Georgia Douglas Johnson poem ..................... 410 Hip-Hop Planet James McBride article ............................... 412 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Ka’Ba Amiri Baraka poem ............................. 423 Harlem II Langston Hughes poem .......................... 424 Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Toni Cade Bambera short story ......................... 426 Rules of the Game Amy Tan short story ................................. 436 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons Amy Tan essay ................................... 452 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Informational Essay ............ 460 viii n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT SIX Echoes from the Past from the Odyssey, Part I Homer epic ..................................... 466 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Ithaka C.P. Cavafy poem . 485 from the Odyssey, Part II Homer epic ..................................... 488 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION Siren Song Margaret Atwood poem .......................... 501 from the Odyssey, Part III Homer epic ..................................... 504 P OE T RY CONNE ct ION An Ancient Gesture Edna St. Vincent Millay poem ....................... 520 from The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood novel excerpt ......................... 522 Orpheus and Eurydice Betty Bonham Lies myth ............................. 530 Eurydice Sarah Ruhl drama ................................. 538 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING Introduction to We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera Donna Orgel book preface ............................ 584 A WRI T ER ´S WORK S HO P Summary .................. 592 ix n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT SEVEN The Dark Side The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell short story ............................ 598 Variations on the Death of Trotsky David Ives drama .................................. 622 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe short story ............................ 634 P OEM S OF DARKNE ss The Bells Edgar Allan Poe poem ........................... 646 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe poem ........................... 650 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe poem ........................... 652 Dozens of Roses Virginia Euwer Wolff drama ........................... 658 The Lottery Shirley Jackson short story ............................ 664 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson reflective essay .......................... 676 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Persuasive Critical Essay .......... 684 x n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n UNIT EIGHT What Has Value? The Gift of the Magi O. Henry short story ................................ 690 Everyday Use Alice Walker short story .............................. 700 Fabric of Their Lives Amei Wallach magazine article ...........................712 P OEM S OF WORKING PEO P LE To be of use Marge Piercy poem ............................. 722 I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman poem ............................ 724 The Necklace Guy de Maupassant short story ......................... 726 The Man to Send Rain Clouds Leslie Marmon Silko short story ......................... 738 Marigolds Eugenia Collier short story ............................ 746 WRI T ER S ON WRI T ING Polaroids Anne Lamott essay ................................ 758 A WRI T ER ’S WORK S HO P Reflective Essay ............... 764 G LO ss ARY OF LI T ERARY TERM S .................... 768 I MAGE CREDI ts ................................. 777 A C KNO W LEDGMEN ts ............................. 779 xi n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n U NDER st ANDING FIC T ION Short Stories and Novels The two main types of fiction are short stories and novels.