Answer these Discussion posts and use evidence from the
text to support your answers.
Discussion
1 – Story: Murakami The Elephant
Vanishes
What
do you think Murakami might be suggesting about new or novel ideas in this
text? For example, what might we infer from the fact that while residents in
the suburbs initially threw a celebration for the elephant and enjoyed the
quirkiness of possessing a zoo animal, the creature and his caretaker both
disappeared when the uniqueness just became normal?
Discussion 2- Story: Matsuo Basho, from The Narrow Road to the
Deep North
1. How do Basho’s haiku comment on the Buddhist concept of
impermanence?
Discussion 3 – Isabel Allende’s “And of Clay Are
We Created”
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What is the significance of the title in this story? How does it create
a central irony that gives the story its power?
Discussion 4 – Leslie
Marmon Silko’s “Yellow Woman”
M. Scott Momaday claims that we
are who we imagine ourselves to be and Silko is “imagining herself
richly.” For your discussion, consider how the same can be said of the
“Yellow Woman” of this story.
