MacKay Lit Circles

The Awakening

1. Fashioning the Hybrid Woman in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

2. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" as a Naturalistic Novel

The Bean Trees

1. Kingsolver's Merger of American Wester Myth and Native American Myth in "The Bean Trees"

2. The Gothic & the Ethnic in "The Bean Trees"

The Bluest Eye

1. The Adolescent Complexities of Race, Gender, and Class in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

2. Barbara Kingslover & the Critics

The Glass Castle

1. Minds and Hearts: Using Jeannette Walls's Memoir, "The Glass Castle", to Teach Emotional Intelligence

2. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Ordinary People

1. Judith Guest on "Ordinary People"

2. Family Mythology: "Ordinary People"

Orphan Train

1. The Orphan Train: Placing Out in America

2. An Interview with the "Orphan Train" Lady