Write a tentative proposal for how you plan to address the task for Essay #1. What stories will you compare? What might your thesis, your debatable opinion, be–based on your understanding of why two characters choose, whether consciously or unconsciously, to act or feel or think in specific ways? What details, what passages, from the stories will you cite as evidence and illustration of your evaluation of the characters’ choices, the effects their choices have on them and / or others, and the themes their stories raise. Based on your own experiences and observations, what do you think about the thematic meaning or message of the stories you are interpreting?