Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Most of the modern short stories dramatize the fragmentation and conflict of our lives. Elaborate with reference to any TWO short stories in your syllabus.
2. Why does Jonathan, the hero of Achebe's short story "Civil Peace" consider himself 'extraordinary lucky' after facing a horrible experience of War?
3. Trace the feminist strains in Sara Suleri's "The Property of Women".
4. "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book" by V.S. Naipaul aptly depicts the plight of the marginalized Third World Immigrants in the West. Discuss with a close reference to the text.
5. "The Woman Who Had Imagination" by H.E. Bates deals with the protagonist's journey towards an epiphany. Do you agree? Give examples from the text.
6. Brathwaite makes effective use of stream of consciousness and irony in "Dream Haiti". Explain with reference to the story.
7. Trace the influence of the Lost Generation in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean Well Lighted Place".
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