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    This document provides 6 questions to guide analysis of the short stories "Desiree's Baby" and "The Wife of His Youth": 1) Identify realist and local color elements in each story, 2) Find examples of foreshadowing in each story, 3) Research the fundamental role of race in American/Southern life in the late 19th/early 20th century, 4) Define the terms mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon and the type of society that would make such distinctions, 5) Explain what it meant "to pass" in 19th century America, and 6) Reflect on whether the stories' conclusions were surprising.

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    This document provides 6 questions to guide analysis of the short stories "Desiree's Baby" and "The Wife of His Youth": 1) Identify realist and local color elements in each story, 2) Find examples of foreshadowing in each story, 3) Research the fundamental role of race in American/Southern life in the late 19th/early 20th century, 4) Define the terms mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon and the type of society that would make such distinctions, 5) Explain what it meant "to pass" in 19th century America, and 6) Reflect on whether the stories' conclusions were surprising.

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    This document provides 6 questions to guide analysis of the short stories "Desiree's Baby" and "The Wife of His Youth": 1) Identify realist and local color elements in each story, 2) Find examples of foreshadowing in each story, 3) Research the fundamental role of race in American/Southern life in the late 19th/early 20th century, 4) Define the terms mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon and the type of society that would make such distinctions, 5) Explain what it meant "to pass" in 19th century America, and 6) Reflect on whether the stories' conclusions were surprising.

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    Questions for Desirees Baby and The Wife of His Youth

    1. List some realist and local color elements in each story. Be


    specific.
    2. Find some examples of foreshadowing in each story. Be specific.
    Be prepared to share your findings with the class for both of
    these questions.

    3. Do a quick Google search to find out why the question of race


    was so fundamental to American/southern life at the turn of the
    20th century.
    4. What do the terms mulatto, quadroon, octoroon mean? What sort
    of society would be intent on making such distinctions?
    5. What did it mean to pass in 19th-century America?
    6. Were you surprised by the stories conclusions?

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