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i s e nteractive tudent dition Literature G l e n c o e T h e R e a d e r ’ s C h o i c e Program Consultants Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Beverly Ann Chin, Ph.D. Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ph.D. David Mendelsohn/Masterfile ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is given authors, publishers, photographers, museums, and agents for permission to reprint the following copyrighted material. Every effort has been made to determine copyright owners. In case of any omissions, the Publisher will be pleased to make suitable acknowledgments in future editions. Copyright © 2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior permission of the publisher. TIME © Time, Inc. TIME and the red border design are trademarks of Time, Inc. used under license. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, OH 43240-4027 ISBN-13: (student edition) 978-0-07-845480-6 ISBN-10: (student edition) 0-07-845480-8 ISBN-13: (teacher edition) 978-0-07-845491-2 ISBN-10: (teacher edition) 0-07-845491-3 Printed in the United States of America. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 071/043 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 CONSULTANTS Senior Program Consultants Jeffrey Wilhelm, Ph.D., a former middle-and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., i s a Professor of secondary-school English and reading teacher, Teacher Education and Director of Professional is currently an Associate Professor of Education Development at San Diego State University, at Boise State University. He is the author or where he teaches English language develop- co-author of numerous articles and several books ment and literacy. He also serves as Director of on the teaching of reading and literacy, includ- City Heights Educational Pilot, which won the ing such award-winning titles as You Gotta BE Christa McAuliffe Award from the American the Book and Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys. He Association of State Colleges and Universities. also works with local schools as part of the He has published numerous articles on read- Adolescent Literacy Project and recently helped ing and literacy, differentiated instruction, and establish the National Writing Project site at curriculum design. He is co-author of the book Boise State University. Improving Adolescent Literacies: Strategies That Work, and co-editor of the book Inclusive Urban Schools. Program Consultants Beverly Ann Chin, Ph.D., i s Professor Jacqueline Jones Royster, D.A., i s of English, Director of the English Teaching Professor of English and Senior Vice Provost Program, former Director of the Montana and Executive Dean of the Colleges of Arts and Writing Project, and former Director of Sciences at The Ohio State University. She is Composition at the University of Montana in currently on the Writing Advisory Committee Missoula. She currently serves as a Member at of the National Commission on Writing, and Large of the Conference of English Leadership. serves as chair for both the Columbus Literacy Dr. Chin is a nationally recognized leader in Council and the Ohioana Library Association. English language arts standards, curriculum, and In addition to the teaching of writing, Dr. assessment. Formerly a high school teacher and Royster’s professional interests include the rhe- adult education reading teacher, Dr. Chin has torical history of African American women and taught in English language arts education at the social and cultural implications of literate several universities and has received awards for practices. She has contributed to and helped to her teaching and service. edit numerous books, anthologies, and journals. iii ADVISORY BOARD Special Consultant Dinah Zike, Ed.D., w as a classroom teacher and a consultant for many years before she began to develop Foldables™—a variety of easily created graphic organizers. Zike has written and developed more than 150 supplemental books and materials used in classrooms worldwide. Her Big Book of Books and Activities won the Teacher’s Choice Award. Glencoe National Reading and Language Arts Advisory Council Mary A. Avalos, Ph.D. Nancy Drew, Ed.D. Kimberly Lawless, Ph.D. Assistant Department Chair, LaPointe Educational Associate Professor Department of Teaching Consultants Curriculum, Instruction and Learning Corpus Christi, Texas and Evaluation Research Assistant Professor, College of Education Susan Florio-Ruane, Ed.D. Department of Teaching University of Illinois and Learning Professor at Chicago University of Miami College of Education Chicago, Illinois Coral Gables, Florida Michigan State University Lansing, Michigan William Ray, M.A. Wanda J. Blanchett, Ph.D. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional Sharon Fontenot O’Neal, Associate Dean for Academic High School Ph.D. Affairs and Associate Sudbury, Massachusetts Professor of Exceptional Associate Professor Education Texas State University Janet Saito-Furukawa, School of Education San Marcos, Texas M.Ed. University of Wisconsin– Literacy Coach Nancy Frey, Ph.D. Milwaukee Washington Irving Milwaukee, Wisconsin Associate Professor of Literacy Middle School in Teacher Education Los Angeles, California William G. Brozo, Ph.D. School of Teacher Education Professor of Literacy San Diego State University Bonnie Valdes, M.Ed. Graduate School of Education San Diego, California Independent Reading College of Education and Consultant Victoria Gentry Ridgeway, Human Development CRISS Master Trainer Ph.D. George Mason University Largo, Florida Associate Professor Fairfax, Virginia Reading Education Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina iivv TEACHER REVIEWERS Bridget Agnew Dianne Konkel Janine M. Pokorak St. Michael Middle School Cypress Lake Middle School School Without Walls Chicago, Illinois Fort Myers, Florida High School Washington, D.C. Monica Aralza Melanie A. Lafleur Dr. Juliet V. Garcia Many High School Susan Putnam Middle School Many, Lousiana Butler High School Brownsville, Texas Matthews, North Carolina Patricia Lee Katherine R. Baer Radnor Middle School Paul C. Putnoki Howard County Public Schools Wayne, Pennsylvania Torrington Middle School Ellicott City, Maryland Torrington, Connecticut Linda Copely Lemons Tanya Baxter Cleveland High School Jane Thompson Rae Roald Amundsen High School Cleveland, Tennessee Cab Calloway High School Chicago, Illinois of the Arts Heather S. Lewis Wilmington, Delaware Danielle R. Brain Waverly Middle School Thomas R. Proctor Senior Lansing, Michigan Ann C. Ryan High School Lindenwold High School Sandra C. Lott Utica City, New York Lindenwold, New Jersey Aiken Optional School Yolanda Conder Alexandria, Louisiana Pamela Schoen Owasso Mid-High School Hopkins High School Connie Malacarne Chicago, Illinois Minnetonka, Minnesota O’Fallon Township Gwenn de Mauriac High School Megan Schumacher The Wiscasset Schools O’Fallon, Illinois Friends’ Central School Wiscasset, Maine Wynnewood, Pennsylvania Lori Howton Means Courtney Doan Edward A. Fulton Fareeda J. Shabazz Bloomington High School Junior High School Paul Revere Middle School Bloomington, Illinois O’Fallon, Illinois Chicago, Illinois Susan M. Griffin Claire C. Meitl Molly Steinlage Edison Preparatory School Howard County Public Schools Brookpark Middle School Tulsa, Oklahoma Ellicott City, Maryland Grove City, Ohio Cindy Davis Harris Patricia P. Mitcham Barry Stevenson Helix Charter High School Mohawk High School (Retired) Garnet Valley Middle School La Mesa, California New Castle, Pennsylvania Glen Mills, Pennsylvania Joseph F. Hutchinson Lisa Morefield Paul Stevenson Toledo Public Schools South-Western Edison Preparatory School Toledo, Ohio Career Academy Tulsa, Oklahoma Grove City, Ohio Ginger Jordan Kathy Thompson Florien High School Kevin Morrison Owasso Mid-High School Florien, Louisiana Hazelwood East High School Owasso, Oklahoma St. Louis, Missouri v BOOK OVERVIEW How to Use Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice: Course 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxiii Scavenger Hunt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxvii UNIT ONE The Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Part 1: Encountering the Unexpected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Part 2: Making Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Part 3: Life Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 UNIT TWO Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308 Part 1: The Power of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317 Part 2: Quests and Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399 Part 3: Keeping Freedom Alive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443 UNIT THREE Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .518 Part 1: The Energy of the Everyday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .527 Part 2: Loves and Losses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .583 Part 3: Issues of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .645 UNIT FOUR Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .704 Part 1: Loyalty and Betrayal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .713 Part 2: Portraits of Real Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .867 vi Art Resource, NY BOOK OVERVIEW UNIT FIVE Legends and Myths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .958 Part 1: Acts of Courage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .967 Part 2: Rescuing and Conquering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035 UNIT SIX Genre Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108 Part 1: The Extraordinary and Fantastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117 Part 2: The Uncanny and Mysterious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181 Reference Section Literary Terms Handbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R1 Glossary/Glosario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R64 Reading Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R20 Academic Word List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R86 Using Foldables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R26 Index of Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R89 Writing Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R30 Index of Authors and Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . .R99 Business Writing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R42 Index of Art and Artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R102 Language Handbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R46 Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R104 Test-Taking Skills Handbook . . . . . . . . . . .R61 vii Schalkwijk/Art Resource, NY CONTENTS T he Shor t Stor y UNIT ONE Genre Focus: Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Literary Analysis Model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ernest Hemingway Old Man at the Bridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . . 4 Writers on Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wrap-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Encountering the Unexpected PART 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Literary Focus: Plot and Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Saki The Open Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 12 Mark Twain The Californian’s Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 20 “Round about California in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men . . .” —Mark Twain Joyce Carol Oates Literary Perspective: Storytelling Is As Old As Mankind . . . . . . . . . . Essay . . . . . . . 31 Shirley Jackson The Summer People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 35 Vocabulary Workshop: Denotation and Connotation: Using a Semantic Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Edwidge Danticat The Book of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 50 R. K. Narayan An Astrologer’s Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 64 Grammar Workshop: Mechanics: Using Possessive Apostrophes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Chinua Achebe Civil Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 82 viii Bettmann/CORBIS CONTENTS “Seize him and unmask him – that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise . . .” —Edgar Allan Poe Making Choices PART 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Literary Focus: Theme and Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Amy Tan Two Kinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . . . 96 James Thurber The Car We Had to Push. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .110 Gabriel García Márquez Tuesday Siesta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .120 Vocabulary Workshop: Multiple-Meaning Words: Distinguishing Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Jhumpa Lahiri When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .131 Paule Marshall To Da-duh, in Memoriam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .148 Jack Finney Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .162 “For an instant he hung suspended between balance and falling . . .” —Jack Finney Luisa Valenzuela The Censors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . . . .180 Carl Safina TIME: Cry of the Ancient Mariner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Science Article . . . . . .186 ix (t)Getty Images, (b)VAGA