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MIT Lecture Note 11

This document provides guidance for a class session on creating plot in short stories. It instructs discussing a character's wants, obstacles, and overcoming in an O'Connor story. It also covers how O'Connor creates identification with unsympathetic characters and who is the "bad guy." The document introduces discussing point of view in stories through workingshopping, and covers 1st person narration and 3rd person narration styles.

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MIT Lecture Note 11

This document provides guidance for a class session on creating plot in short stories. It instructs discussing a character's wants, obstacles, and overcoming in an O'Connor story. It also covers how O'Connor creates identification with unsympathetic characters and who is the "bad guy." The document introduces discussing point of view in stories through workingshopping, and covers 1st person narration and 3rd person narration styles.

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755, Writing and Reading Short Stories (Fall 2006) Shariann Lewitt Session 9: Creating Plot

Discuss OConnor. - What does the grandmother want? Obstacle? Overcomes? - How OConnor creates identification with unsympathetic character - Who is the bad guy here? Go over workshopping - how, to what end. [Workshop] Introduce point of view: 1st person: narrator vs. protagonist narrator 3rd person: intimate vs. omniscient

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