After reading this story, what set of values and/or types of people (or specific historical people) should we attempt to emulate, and what makes you think so?

One possible approach to this paper is to make the implicit poltical/moral worldview behind your piece of fiction explicit. In other words, after reading this story, what set of values and/or types of people (or specific historical people) should we attempt to emulate, and what makes you think so? You might focus on the way landscapes are described and/or the characters in a fictional story in order to answer the following question: who are the chosen people? In other words, who should we sympathize with or attempt to emulate and why? What particular characteristics are represented positively? Another approach would be to look at the narrators comments about characters actions, race, gender, and so forth. You may choose any work of fiction and it need not be serious literature (i.e., Tolstoy, Shakespeare, etc.). If you would like to use a story that we read for class, then that is fine. As you answer this question, bear in mind that the genre and time period of a work often influence the audiences reception of it. For instance, an old man who has accumulated a small fortune over his lifetime may be called stingy in a medieval fabliau or wise in an eighteenth-century novel. He would most likely be the antagonist of the former and the protagonist of the latter. If none of these ways of writing about literature appeal to you, then you are welcome to choose your own approach. Ultimately, the final paper should just be an analysis of a work of literature how you approach that analysis is up to you.