Technology

  https://artifactsjournal.missouri.edu/2018/06/a-technological-invasion/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200734/http://nerdclave.com/home/world-veldt-made/

http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/02/21/the-veldt-by-ray-bradbury/

On Technology:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrealoubier/2021/06/01/is-society-moving-in-the-right-direction-with-technology-rapidly-taking-over-the-world/?sh=d875a6b7c099

https://www.brainspire.com/blog/technology-and-society-how-technology-changed-our-lives

https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/2/1/27353/118411/How-Is-Technology-Changing-the-World-and-How

https://www.wya.net/op-ed/technology-taking-over/

https://campuspress.yale.edu/tribune/technology-is-taking-over-the-world-and-raising-public-concerns/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/18/technology-has-already-taken-over-90-of-the-jobs-humans-used-to-do/?sh=4c807d831bdd

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/15/rise-of-the-machines-has-technology-evolved-beyond-our-control-

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/03/technology-2050-save-humanity-or-destroy-us

Religion

 

Religion

  More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/a-moment-of-grace-in-flannery-oconnors-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find/

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/25/readers-den-flannery-oconnor-good-man-hard-find

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

This is an article about the misuse of church funds:

https://news.sky.com/story/bishop-used-church-money-for-cattle-ranch-11299536

This is an article about villagers mistaking a sex doll for an angel:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-toy-washes-indonesian-beach-locals-angel-article-1.2624725

Magical Realism:

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-magical-realism#quiz-0


https://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/definitions/


This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/


What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

Freudian Analysis of the story:

https://bradham.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/freudian-principles-explaining-a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings/

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

https://seanfoleyportfolio.weebly.com/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings.html

Author's Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

Appearance Links

 The Importance of appearance:

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/how-important-appearance-workplace

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tykiisel/2013/03/20/you-are-judged-by-your-appearance/#4a2afa1b6d50

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/how-important-is-it-to-be-attractive-in-our-society/

"Sonny's Blues"

 

"Sonny's Blues"

Outside sources for Baldwin:

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/big-picture-small-picture-context-for-james-baldwins-sonnys-blues/

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/baldwin.html

 http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin.html?scp=3&sq=james%20baldwin&st=cse

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Baldwin.htm

https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1016&context=fgv

https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin-A-Critical-Analysis

https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin-A-Critical-Analysis

https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/david.brenner/engl2327/course-materials-read-and-re-read-religiously/copy_of_argument-research-termpaper-essay/sample-essays-ideological-critical-analysis/sample-essay-a-on-james-baldwin-story/at_download/file

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIUC/article/download/EIUC9696110175A/8460

https://medium.com/world-literature/surviving-and-suffering-ed3c3a94bc94

Harlem Information:

https://guides.loc.gov/harlem-renaissance

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/magazine/harlem-in-the-jazz-age.html?src=pm

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/negro-artist-and-racial-mountain/

https://bahai-library.com/buck_america-mosaic_harlem_renaissance

http://www.history.com/topics/harlem-renaissance


Below is the Bible scripture that Baldwin refers to:
“The cup of trembling”
22
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

   

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal1baybrook.html

Some info on the author:

https://www.htsdnj.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=27608&dataid=46305&FileName=An%20Occurrence%20at%20Owl%20Creek%20Bridge.pdf

http://futureofthebook.org/occurrence/

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge-ambrose-beirce/3446101.html

"Bullet in the Brain"

 https://milled.com/the-new-yorker-1/tobias-wolffs-bullet-in-the-brain-DiWhBAykPux3iFvQ

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-03-29-0803270250-story.html

https://fictionwritersreview.com/shoptalk/short-story-month-rec-bullet-in-the-brain/

Interview with the author:

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5391/the-art-of-fiction-no-183-tobias-wolff

Death and Time

This is just an abstract but the information can be useful:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392410010614

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/time-and-death-0

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/844507/what-happens-when-you-die-quantum-theory-life-after-death

Gender

 

"Girl"

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1430005205&v=2.1&u=fitsuny&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&asid=fe5691927b646b2a07de5a8f86ad1734

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHr1HYW0mKE

https://apostrosea.com/2017/07/11/analysis-of-girls-by-jamaica-kincaid-1978-feminism-with-a-dash-of-race/

http://panmore.com/analysis-jamaica-kincaid-girl

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2016.1236658?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rcui20

A Psychological Analysis of Connie: A Feminist Viewpoint of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

http://home.mindspring.com/~blkgrnt/footlights/foot66.html

Background Info:
http://www.philjohn.com/papers/pjkd_ga15.html

The story was based on Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson:

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/schmid/sand_1.html

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-12-20/news/17941422_1_pied-piper-french-killings

https://celestialtimepiece.com/2016/10/10/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been-and-smooth-talk-short-story-into-film/

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/movies/when-characters-from-the-page-are-made-flesh-on-the-screen.h

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

   

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Bullet in the Brain"

 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal1baybrook.html

Some info on the author:

https://www.htsdnj.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=27608&dataid=46305&FileName=An%20Occurrence%20at%20Owl%20Creek%20Bridge.pdf

http://futureofthebook.org/occurrence/

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge-ambrose-beirce/3446101.html

"Bullet in the Brain"

 https://milled.com/the-new-yorker-1/tobias-wolffs-bullet-in-the-brain-DiWhBAykPux3iFvQ

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-03-29-0803270250-story.html

https://fictionwritersreview.com/shoptalk/short-story-month-rec-bullet-in-the-brain/

Interview with the author:

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5391/the-art-of-fiction-no-183-tobias-wolff

Death and Time

This is just an abstract but the information can be useful:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392410010614

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/time-and-death-0

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/844507/what-happens-when-you-die-quantum-theory-life-after-death