Week 3 Blog post

Battle of Chickamauga

Don't forget, the first Week 3 post is due by 11pm tonight. Here's the prompt:


Post 1: Good guys & bad guys
Due: Thursday, February 2, 11pm

On first glance, the way in which war is depicted in Bierce’s “Chickamauga” and Twain’s “A Private History” seem to be very different. But a closer reading of both might reveal some important if subtle places of overlap. What are some ways in which the depiction of war is similar in these two stories?

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The last line of “The Storm”—“So the storm passed an every one was happy.”—is a surprising one, especially given all that happens in the (very) short story. How do you think a reader should think about this ending (what does it “mean?”), and what does the ending have to say about the story’s portrayal of marriage, love, and infidelity?