For Thursday we have one (short) short story by Khaled Mattawa, "First Snow," and two poems. We'll talk more about "Growing Up With a Sears Catalog in Benghazi, Libya" than "Borrowed Tongue."

As I suggested in class today, I'd like you to try your hand at analyzing the short story AND the poem using the following elements:

• Theme: the topic of the narrative (adolescence, gender, sexuality, patriotism, pride, ethnicity, morality, etc.)
• Plot (exposition, complication, crisis/climax, resolution, epiphany)
• Character: major/minor, round/flat, protagonist/antagonist, motivations, fate
• Setting: location/site, movement, changes in setting
• Point of view: narrator (omniscient, limited, objective, reliable/unreliable, first-person, second-person, third-person)
• Irony and paradox: reader’s point of view

Think also about the fundamental ideas of movement and transformation.