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Attached is my assignmentThis is a 3 part Assignment Assignment Part 1: Character and Point of View For Part 1 of the exam, you’ll analyze the characterization and point of view used in three short stories: “A&P” by John Updike, “IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo” by Fay Weldon, and “Lust” by Susan Minot. For Part 1, write 400–500 words analyzing characterization and point of view in “A&P,” “IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo,” and “Lust.” The main characters in each of these stories are young people coming of age. Compare and contrast the author’s techniques in developing each character. How does the perspective of each story enhance our understanding of each character’s personality? Be sure to refer to specific points in each story to support your analysis. You must use at least two quotes in your response. Part 2: Style, Tone, and Theme For Part 2 of this project, you’ll either (1) discuss how style and tone function in “Killings” by Andre Dubus and “Famine” by Xu Xi or (2) identify and analyze the theme of “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver and “The Paring Knife” by Michael Oppenheimer. Choose one of the following activities and write 400–500 words providing the required analysis. Include sufficient support from the story for your analysis and conclusions. You must use at least two quotes in your response. You’ll use standard essay format. 1. Analyze the style and tone in “Killings” and “Famine.” What techniques does the author use to establish the mood of the story? How does language contribute to tone? Compare and contrast how diction, voice, and irony affect the way each story is told. Copyright Penn Foster, Inc. 2018 Page 7 Course Version: 2 2. Analyze the themes of “Popular Mechanics” and “The Paring Knife.” What do you believe are the themes for these stories? Compare how theme is developed through the plots and characters of each story Part 3: Poetry For Part 3 of this project, you’ll either (1) analyze how word choice, tone, and images function in “The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill” by Judy Page Heitzman and “The Supremes” by Cornelius Eady or (2) evaluate the symbol, allegory, irony, and figures of speech found in “Schizophrenia” by Jim Stevens and “The Joy of Cooking” by Elaine Magarrell.  Choose one of the following activities and write 400–500 words providing the required analysis. Include sufficient support from the poem for your analysis and conclusions. You must use at least two quotes in your response. You’ll use standard essay format. Be sure to work through the writing process outlined in your textbook, use MLA for textual and works-cited documentation, and apply standard written conventions. 1. Analyze the word choice, tone, and images found in “The Supremes” and “The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill.” How do the authors capture the experience of being in school? What words and images in each poem help convey the tone? Explain how these elements of each poem work together to create a familiar/recognizable impression on the reader. 2. Analyze the symbol, allegories, irony, and figures of speech Copyright Penn Foster, Inc. 2018 Page 9 Course Version: 2 found in “Schizophrenia” and “The Joy of Cooking.” How do figures of speech enhance each poem’s meaning? Remember to not just identify the kind of language being used but to also analyze the significance behind this language.

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The three stories, A&P, Lust and IND AFF or out of love in Sarajevo have different narrative styles. The common point in each narrative is that the narrator is unknown. A&P is written from the perspective of a boy while Lust and IND AFF are written from the perspective of girls. All three are coming of age stories dealing with physical attraction to the opposite sex.
In A&P the character development is mild as we glimpse the narrator in a single environment observing three girls clad in bikinis. The narrator is 19 years old and takes pleasure in observing the physical attributes of the girls as they don’t conceal much. He is open-minded and takes no offense in their countenance. However, from his observations and in the way he describes their physical features we hint a sense of sarcasm. The narrator is attracted to them and follows them around with his looks. His preference for the chubby girl shows that he likes girls who are easy to deal with. Even though he recognizes the Queenie from the three, he doesn’t want to go after her.  He doesn’t care much about conventions as he takes Lengel to task later for criticizing them and eventually quits his job without much thought.
“"Sammy, you don't want to do this to your Mom and Dad," he tells me. It's true, I don't. But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”
In IND AFF or Out of love in Sarajevo, the narrator is a twenty two year old girl who is largely sarcastic and can be said to have an infatuation with her college professor who is already married. The story observes a comparison between the current life events of the narrator and the effect Princip has in World War 1. She is intelligent and insightful since she knows the story of Princip in quite a bit of detail. 
“Forty million dead (or was it thirty) but who cares, so long as he loved his country (Weldon, 202)”
We observe as the narrators feelings and person grows from being an infatuated young woman to one of sensible thought. She realizes that she isn’t as much in love with the professor as she thought she did. Through her reflection on Princip’s story, the narrator becomes conscious of herself realizing, “from the glisten of the oil… the food was no longer hot” (Weldon)
Lust follows a first-person narrative that recounts the narrators various sexual encounters in a passing manner describing her detachment from the events. She seems to be removed from her narrations like a third person stating facts that mean nothing. We construct the narrator as someone who doesn’t care about having proper relations. There is conflict within the narrator’s personality as she develops a confessional attitude towards the end of the story. In her attempt to find love, we realize her sadness and loneliness as she finds herself left alone and unknown after every sexual relationship.
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