3 page essay on 3 short stories

(“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “Harrison Bergeron”, “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver) Explain how each author conveys the SAME theme. Does he or she use symbolism? imagery? irony? Be specific, and use quotes from the story to support your ideas. This paper should be 3 to 5 pages long.
BE SURE TO DISCUSS ONLY STORIES READ DURING THE FICTION MODULE. There is one exception. You may include “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry if you wish.
Include a thesis statement that contains the authors and titles.
Use the present tense to discuss literature.
Put the story titles in quotation marks. Do not use underlining with or instead of the quotation marks. Only book-length works, such as plays, are marked with underlining.
DO NOT use sources other than the stories themselves. This means that you WILL NOT use Wikipedia, SparkNotes, BookRags, or any other site. I want to read what you have to say about these stories.
Save the file in MS Word or Rich Text and submit it as an attachment on the Assignments page. THE FILE NAME MUST END IN .DOC. ,.DOCX, or .RTF. DO NOT SAVE YOUR FILES IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN RICH TEXT OR MS WORD. .
DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. Do not read and copy information from another website and include it in your paper, whether you put it in your own words or not.
If you do not remember how to cite the stories within the text, visit this link and read it carefully and completely: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
You should also have a Works Cited page containing entries for the works discussed. If you have taken all of them from your text, you may find one of the following links helpful.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/

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