writing paper 107

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Minimum 350 words: Compare the depiction of poverty and lower-class people in the two short stories you read for this week (Baudelaire’s “The Eyes of the Poor” and Canth’s “The Nursemaid”). Write an analysis where you consider the following questions:

  • what kind of a narrator & whose point of view do we have?
  • how are poor characters depicted? what do we learn of them?
  • what was your response to the poor characters in each story? what kinds of emotions did the stories evoke?
  • how do these texts ask us to think about the poor? to act towards the poor?