Full Description
RITES OF PASSAGE is a single-theme reader with essays, short stories and poetry that examine how various cultures celebrate and honor life-shaping events.
Contents
1. READING AND WRITING ABOUT RITES OF PASSAGE.
Reading and Thinking about Rites of Passage.
David Hicks and Margaret A. Gwynne: On the Rainy River (excerpt).
Writing about Rites of Passage.
The Way Writers Work.
Tina Lim�n: Fleeing the Nest (student essay).
2. CHILDHOOD.
John Holt: Three Kinds of Discipline.
Sharon Olds: Rites of Passage.
Edward P. Jones: The First Day.
Kiernan Egan: The Mythic Stage.
Theodore Roethke: My Papa''s Waltz.
Jennifer Bojorquez: Spare the Chores, Spoil the Child.
Anne Sexton: Pain for a Daughter.
Michele L. Norris: A Child of Crack.
Mary Cantwell: The Burden of a Happy Childhood.
Devorah Major: Little Girl Days.
Kay S. Hymowitz: The Teening of Childhood.
Marie Winn: The End of Play.
3. IN OUR MIDST: THE IMPORTANCE OF FAIRY TALES IN OUR LIVES.
Anne Sexton: Cinderella.
Mona van Duyn: Cinderella''s Story.
[author unknown]: The Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned.
Robert Bly: Iron John.
Dave Barry: Feeling the Force.
Bruno Bettleheim: Life Divined From the Inside.
Clarissa Estes: Sealskin, Soulskin.
Linda Seger: Creating the Myth.
4. ADOLESCENCE.
Naomi Wolf: Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle toward Womanhood.
Tepilit Ole Saitoti: The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior.
Judith Ortiz Cofer: Quincea�era.
Dorianne Laux: Twelve.
Charles Mungoshi: The Setting Sun and the Rolling World.
Langston Hughes: Salvation.
Anne Tyler: Teenage Wasteland.
Barbara S. Cain: Older Children and Divorce.
James Dickey: Cherrylog Road.
Tim O''Brien: On The Rainy River.
T.C. Boyle: Greasy Lake.
Steven Stark: Where the Boys Are.
5. ADULTHOOD.
Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood.
Robert Bly: A World of Half-Adults.
Linda Pastan: Ethics.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Channeled Whelk.
William Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Man.
Judith Ortiz Cofer: Advanced Biology.
Nathan McCall: Makes Me Want to Holler.
Rosemary L. Bray: So How Did I Get Here?
Louise Erdrich: Z: The Movie That Changed My Life.
Joan Didion: On Self Respect.
Sara Davidson: What Do Women Want?
Judie Rae: Encounter at Daybreak.
John A. Rush Ph.D.: Rites, Ritual & Responsibility.
6. LOVE, MARRIAGE, BIRTH.
Anne Roiphe: Why Marriages Fail.
Jill Tweedie: The Experience.
Linda Gregg: The Conditions.
Susan M. Garfield: Love''s Role In Marriage.
Joy Harjo: Three Generations of Native American Women''s Birth Experience.
Bobbie Ann Mason: Shiloh.
Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants.
Catherine Fraga: Standing Together.
Judith Wallerstein & Sandra Blakeslee: The Good Marriage.
7. FAMILY.
Rita Dove: Daystar.
Ellen Goodman: The Family Legacy.
Thomas Simmons: Motorcycle Talk.
Chester Higgins Jr.: A Father''s Rite.
Barbara Kingsolver: Stone Soup.
Alice Walker: Everyday Use.
Mel Lazarus: Angry Fathers.
Eamon Grennan: Station.
8. THE MATURE YEARS: AS WE AGE.
E. B. White: Once More to the Lake.
Charles Wright: Sitting at Night on the Front Porch.
Richard Selzer: The Discus Thrower.
Melvin I. Urofsky: Two Scenes from a Hospital.
Gwendolyn Brooks: The Bean Eaters.
Anne Ricks Sumer: I Want to Die at Home.
Norman Cousins: The Right to Die.
Malcolm Cowley: The View from Eighty.
Karla Cole: We Don''t Want to Grow Old.
May Sarton: Monday, May 3rd, 1982.
Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain.
Matthew E. Conolly: Euthanasia Is Not the Answer.
