Story Theme and Tone

Compare your reactions to “Jesus Shaves,” on the one hand, to “The Management of Grief” and “Interpreter of Maladies.”  How does your personal relationship to the various cultural traditions depicted in the three stories, especially those of each protagonist, affect your response to each story?  How does the narration (and tone of the narrator) of each story contribute to the articulation of its theme? In your analysis, make specific references to the story’s characters and scenes.  If you choose to quote from a story, please follow the citation guidelines on our lecture PDF and at the bottom of this prompt.Please write at least 600 words (200 words per story).  This assignment makes up 5% of your final grade (5 points).  Enjoy!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please note:1.  When you quote from our readings, please refer to the format listed in this section.  Here is a brief explanation of how to Cite Fiction using MLA style: Citing Short Stories – Readers should be able to move from your own words to the words you quote from a source without feeling a jolt. So introduce all your quotes with signal phrases, usually including the author’s name, to prepare readers for the source:In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka describes how Gregor Samsa, the story’s protagonist, is grotesquely transformed “into a monstrous verminous bug” (1).In “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakens from a turbulent night’s sleep and discovers that he has been transformed “into a monstrous verminous bug” (Kafka 1).Please note that MLA style for fiction does not include any form of punctuation! Just the page number – or the author’s name and page number!  Use a signal phrase and transition to introduce your quote, put quotation marks around the story title and the quoted lines, and cite the source at the end of the sentence.2.  Break up your ideas into multiple paragraphs.  Each story analysis that is written as one paragraph will be marked down.3.  Make sure that your quotes make up less than 20% of your word count!