Click each bar below to expand and click twice to collapse. Why Write a Literary Analysis?

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In some stories, characters come into conflict with the culture in which they live. Often, a character feels alienated in his/her community or society due to race, gender, class or ethnic background. The texts below all contain a character who is ‘outcast’ or otherwise disconnected from society in some way, reflecting important ideas about both the character and the surrounding society’s assumptions, morality, and values. Choose a text and consider the questions below as you critically read the text. Then, craft a working thesis that suggests howthis alienation is expressed in the text and why it is significant.Literary Works (choose one):“What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Sherman Alexie, 2003)Guiding Questions:1. What beliefs and values from Native American culture does the narrator consider important, based on ideas and actions in the story?2. What kinds of experience and values do characters share across cultural differences like Native Americans and whites, or even between different native groups in the story?

3. How do the bisexual character, the narrator, and the homeless characters in the story all demonstrate and resolve different “outsider” identities?