Please write a two to three page (five to seven paragraph) essay, typed, double-spaced,on any topicregarding one of the short stories we’ve read. Here are some prompts, not meant to limit you but just...

Please write a two to three page (five to seven paragraph) essay, typed, double-spaced,on any topicregarding one of the short stories we’ve read. Here are some prompts, not meant to limit you but just to get you thinking:

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   Derevaun Seraun.
   In James Joyce’s “Eveline,” the title character’s mother on her deathbed mutters words that may be translated “the end of pleasure is pain.” Or they may just be the singsong nonsense of dementia. How can Eveline’s experience in this story be understood as in part a paralyzed response to her mother’s ambiguous words? Do the words at times urge her toward a better life, at others urge her to remain within a life like her mother’s?