How i found america and the lost beautifulness

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Assignment:

Read Anzia Yezierska's short biography.

Read the following two stories: Anzia Yezierska's "How I Found America" and "The Lost Beautifulness"

1. Share your thoughts upon reading the two stories. You can choose your topic/scene/theme/quotation for the first paragraph of the response.

2. In the next part of your response, I would like you to comment on your experience of Yezierska's writing: What kind of writer is she (stylistically speaking)? If you were to describe her writing style, judging by the two stories, what adjectives would you use? What adjectives would you use do describe the stories? What response did you have to her stories?

3. What picture of the American Dream does Yezierska paint in her stories? Answer providing specific quotations from both stories.

4. Read Yezierska's short biography in one of the links I posted above. What do you think about her real-life version of the American Dream? Would you say she was able to achieve it?

A successful response -- one that gets 100 points -- will address all parts of the question and prove to my satisfaction that you have read Yezierska's stories. You don't have to interpret them well; in fact, expressing doubts and questions is welcome in this Reading Journal. I would, however, like to see that you made an attempt at reading the stories and connecting them to our class. You are welcome to quote and share your theories and questions.

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