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PROMPT: Write a 750-900 word essay in MLA format that integrates two literary critics. The quotations will illustrate up to 3 literary elements —plot/structure, setting, point of view, characters, style, tone, or theme—on ONE of the short stories.

"The Lesson" Tonie Cade Bambara

"The Shroud" Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

“Popular Mechanics” Raymond Carver

“Veldt” Ray Bradbury

“The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin

"The Birth Mark" Nathaniel Hawthorne

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