75 Readings Plus Book

	Thematic Contents
	To the Instructor
Ch. 1	Narration	1
	A Hanging	3
	Salvation	9
	Grandmother's Victory	13
	No Name Woman	19
	Somewhere, Some Time, Some Place	31
	The Stunt Pilot	37
	The Day the Fire Came	48
Ch. 2	Description	54
	Where the World Began	56
	The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador	63
	Tuesday Morning	67
	The Death of the Moth	73
	The Way to Rainy Mountain	77
	Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair	83
	My Father	89
	Easter in Sicily	98
Ch. 3	Process	106
	The Spider and the Wasp	108
	The Grey Beginnings	114
	How to Cook a Carp	123
	Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	128
	Writing Drafts	137
	Rules of the Game: Rodeo	142
	How to Live to Be 200	150
Ch. 4	Definition	155
	The Holocaust	157
	Beauty	162
	Homeless	166
	What Is Poverty	170
	Faith of the Father	175
	Erotica and Pornography	181
	Good Souls	187
Ch. 5	Division and Classification	193
	Thinking as a Hobby	195
	Presidential Character and How to Foresee It	203
	The Climythology of America	209
	Predictable Crises of Adulthood	217
	Why Nothing Is "Wrong" Anymore	225
	Cinematypes	229
	Growing Up Asian in America	233
Ch. 6	Comparison and Contrast	241
	Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	243
	My Brother Shaman	248
	Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers	253
	Bones	264
	Two Views of the Mississippi	274
	The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life	277
	Neat People vs. Sloppy People	280
	At the Mercy of the Cure	284
Ch. 7	Example and Illustration	289
	Backwater Cuisine	291
	Why Don't We Complain?	295
	Does America Still Exist?	302
	A Few Kind Words for Superstition	307
	The Patterns of Eating	311
	Distancing the Homeless	317
	On a Greek Holiday	330
Ch. 8	Cause and Effect	337
	How Do You Know It's Good?	339
	The Villain in the Atmosphere	346
	Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy	351
	My Wood	356
	Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies	360
	The Iks	363
	White Guilt	367
	Where Have All the Parents Gone?	375
Ch. 9	Analogy	383
	The Myth of the Cave	385
	The Myth of Sisyphus	390
	"But a Watch in the Night": A Scientific Fable	395
	Body Ritual among the Nacirema	401
	The Cosmic Prison	407
	Shouting "Fire!"	411
	Am I Blue?	417
	My Horse	422
Ch. 10	Argument	430
	A Modest Proposal	432
	The Great Person-Hole Cover Debate: A Modest Proposal for Anyone Who Thinks the Word "He" Is Just Plain Easier...	440
	Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You	444
	Should This Student Have Been Expelled?	448
	I Have a Dream	456
	Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	461
	A Step Back to the Workhouse?	470
	Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor	478
	Acknowledgments	485
	Index of Authors and Titles	491