U.S.A SHORT STORY                                                                                                                                                             

• READING ASSIGNMENT 1.

-Treatment of time in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle.

-Initiation journey in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.

• READING ASSIGNMENT 2.

-Narrative technique used in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener.

-Narrative tone and pattern of Ambrose Bierce's Oil of Dog.