Mystery: What makes a mystery?
Mystery
What makes a mystery? Why do we want to solve puzzles? The genre for this week is Mystery. Our Part 1 focuses on what makes the genre different from others. We will use the Part 2 to create an experiment in creative character analysis. Finally, for the Part 3, you will write a short story in any genre this course covers.
Reading
The reading assignments for this unit are:
- ENGL 1405 Unit 5 – Creative Character Analysis.
Also, you are responsible for reading ONE of the following:
- The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/thearta.htm)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Red Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Safety Match by Anton Chekhov (http://fullreads.com/literature/the-safety-match/)
- The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde (http://www.wilde-online.info/the-sphinx-without-a-secret.html)
- Beginners by Raymond Carver (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/beginners)
- The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FinaProb.shtml)
- The Executioner by Honore de Balzac
- A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
- A Tale of the Great Plague by Thomas Hood
