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Rites of Passage

by: Rae, Judith; Fraga, Catherine

Rites of Passage

by: Rae, Judith; Fraga, Catherine

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Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/22/2001
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

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.

Preface

xxi

Reading and Writing about Rites of Passage

(1)

Introduction: Why This Book?

(2)

Reading and Thinking about Rites of Passage

(2)

A Primitive Ritual

(1)

David Hicks

Margaret A. Gwynne

On the Rainy River (excerpt)

(3)

Tim O'Brien

Writing about Rites of Passage

(1)

The Way Writers Work

(9)

Fleeing the Nest (student essay)

(4)

Tina Limon

Childhood

(61)

Three Kinds of Discipline

(3)

John Holt

Rites of Passage

(1)

Sharon Olds

The First Day

(5)

Edward P. Jones

The Mythic Stage

(7)

Kiernan Egan

My Papa's Waltz

(2)

Theodore Roethke

Spare the Chores, Spoil the Child

(2)

Jennifer Bojorquez

Pain for a Daughter

(3)

Anne Sexton

A Child of Crack

(6)

Michele L. Norris

The Burden of a Happy Childhood

(2)

Mary Cantwell

Little Girl Days

(4)

Devorah Major

The Teening of Childhood

(16)

Kay S. Hymowitz

The End of Play

(9)

Marie Winn

In Our Midst: The Importance of Fairy Tales In Our Lives

(50)

Cinderella

(3)

Anne Sexton

Cinderella's Story

(3)

Mona Van Duyn

The Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned

(2)

[Author Unknown]

Iron John

(10)

Robert Bly

Feeling the Force

103

(2)

Dave Barry

Life Divined from the Inside

105

(6)

Bruno Bettelheim

Sealskin, Soulskin

111

(10)

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Seal's Skin

121

(2)

[Author Unknown]

Creating the Myth

123

(11)

Linda Seger

Adolescence

134

(71)

Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle toward Womanhood

135

(4)

Naomi Wolf

The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior

139

(9)

Tepilit Ole Saitoti

Quinceanera

148

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Twelve

149

(2)

Dorianne Laux

The Setting Sun and the Rolling World

151

(4)

Charles Mungoshi

Salvation

155

(2)

Langston Hughes

Teenage Wasteland

157

(9)

Anne Tyler

Older Children and Divorce

166

(7)

Barbara S. Cain

Cherrylog Road

173

(4)

James Dickey

On the Rainy River

177

(12)

Tim O'Brien

Greasy Lake

189

(9)

T. C. Boyle

Where the Boys Are

198

(7)

Steven Stark

Adulthood

205

(65)

Predictable Crises of Adulthood

206

(6)

Gail Sheehy

A World of Half-Adults

212

(7)

Robert Bly

Ethics

219

(2)

Linda Pastan

Channelled Whelk

221

(5)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Seven Ages of Man

226

(2)

William Shakespeare

Advanced Biology

228

(7)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Makes Me Wanna Holler

235

(8)

Nathan McCall

So How Did I Get Here?

243

(4)

Rosemary L. Bray

Z: The Movie That Changed My Life

247

(5)

Louise Erdrich

On Self-Respect

252

(4)

Joan Didion

What Do Women Want?

256

(4)

Sara Davidson

Encounter at Daybreak

260

(1)

Judie Rae

Rites, Ritual and Responsibility: Dilemma in American Culture

261

(9)

John A. Rush

Love, Marriage, and Birth

270

(48)

Why Marriages Fail

270

(4)

Anne Roiphe

The Experience

274

(9)

Jill Tweedie

The Conditions

283

(1)

Linda Gregg

Love's Role in Marriage

284

(3)

Susan M. Garfield

Three Generations of Native American Women's Birth Experience

287

(5)

Joy Harjo

Shiloh

292

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Hills like White Elephants

302

(4)

Ernest Hemingway

Standing Together

306

(2)

Catherine Fraga

The Good Marriage

308

(10)

Judith Wallerstein

Sandra Blakeslee

Family

318

(32)

Daystar

319

(1)

Rita Dove

The Family Legacy

320

(2)

Ellen Goodman

Motorcycle Talk

322

(3)

Thomas Simmons

A Father's Rite

325

(4)

Chester Higgins Jr.

Stone Soup

329

(6)

Barbara Kingsolver

Everyday Use

335

(8)

Alice Walker

Angry Fathers

343

(3)

Mel Lazarus

Station

346

(4)

Eamon Grennan

The Mature Years: As We Age

350

(47)

Once More to the Lake

350

(6)

E. B. White

Sitting at Night on the Front Porch

356

(1)

Charles Wright

The Discus Thrower

357

(3)

Richard Selzer

Two Scenes from a Hospital

360

(7)

Melvin I. Urofsky

The Bean Eaters

367

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

I Want to Die at Home

368

(3)

Anne Ricks Sumers

The Right to Die

371

(2)

Norman Cousins

The View from 80

373

(5)

Malcolm Cowley

We Don't Want to Grow Old

378

(3)

Karla Cole

Monday, May 3rd, 1982

381

(3)

May Sarton

Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain

384

(7)

Jessica Mitford

Euthanasia Is Not the Answer

391

(6)

Matthew E. Conolly

Author/Title Index

397

(4)

Credits

401

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Rites of Passage

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