Short Answer Responses: Feasting on Food Short Stories

Choose FIVE of the following to write about in short answer responses:

1. In which story is food and/or drink a status symbol?
2. Which story contains the most sensual depiction of food?
3. In “Taste,” Richard Pratt clearly cheats, but who cheats in “Sorry Fugu?”
4. Which story best illustrates the relationship between family and food?
5. Contrast the female characters in “January: Christmas Rolls” and “A Bunch of Broccoli on the Third Shelf.”
6. Which story best illustrates how food is tied to social class?
7. In which two stories is food an expression of its characters’ ethnicity? 

Use specific examples from the stories to support your thesis.

Mechanics:

• Approximately 750 words
• MLA Style, plus works cited

Due: Mon 10.14 (via Canvas)