American Literature by _cyrus.le_

GROUP 5

60.NNA-9 II. DRAMA: A PLAY OR SCRIPT

AMERICAN LITERATURE LITERARY GENRES I. FICTION: IMAGINATIVE OR MADE UP WRITING Science Fiction: has aliens, robots, futuristic technology and/or space ships

“WHEN A MAN GOT PREGNANT”

t happened with a newlywed couple, Kathryn and Daniel, who has only been married for a few months and they were enjoying a wonderful honeymoon in Italy. One day, the couple was enjoying delicious dishes in a luxurious restaurant in Rome, when the waiter brought out “passion fruit salmon fillet”, Kathryn felt a strange feeling. She felt uncomfortable in her throat and nauseous; she told her husband that she couldn’t smell the food and rushed to the bathroom to vomit. She thought something was wrong, so she rushed out and said to Daniel that she wanted to go to the hospital for a quick test. As a result, Kathryn was 3 weeks pregnant with her first child, Daniel was overjoyed and hugged Kathryn and then they went back to the hotel where they were staying. However, after a long sleep, the next morning, while eating breakfast buffet at the hotel, they encountered the food that made Kathryn uncomfortable that night, and strangely this time she didn’t feel uncomfortable, and who felt nauseous this time was Daniel, after that many funny situations appeared. Daniel always felt back pain, nausea, craved sour food, .... These things made Kathryn extremely surprised and funny. It went on with Daniel until the day Kathryn gave birth to her first child. What an unforgettable experience for Daniel!

Author Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh

traumatized when she discovers the shocking fact that her mother has worked on implanting fish DNA into human fetal cells before she was born. Suspecting her mother, she decides to test her DNA with her parents, and she finds it doesn’t match. Frightened and angry, she silently breaks into her mother’s laboratory and burns all of her creations. Then she put an anesthetic in her mother’s drink and takes her to the sea and threw her into the water. Finally, she also jumps down to join in the wave that drowns her, and she frees herself to live a whole new and funny life under the ocean.

Author Dang Nhat Uyen

n front of Adam now was an enormous ferocious monster; it had a head like a pig with a human body. It calls itself a god and then goes to each village to capture people to eat them alive. Adam, a bounty hunter, also heard about it, so he wanted to cut its head off to receive the reward. The amount of money for this monster’s head is said to have been able to buy ten entire magnificent castles at once. The monster tilted its head to look at the ‘short’ human holding a glowing sword to challenge it, then spat out those chewy intestines, walked towards Adam, and said: “Another lowly human? You here to be my dessert? I wish that you taste more delicious than the mortal I ate.” “I’m here to cut off your head!” Adam raised his Holy Sword, ready for battle. They fought for about an hour. Adam sensed that the monster was weakening, so he took advantage of the moment when its guard was off, swinging the Holy Sword to cut off its head. “What a bunch of mortals!” Adam’s eyes widened; he couldn’t feel his body anymore. Looking towards the monster, he saw it tearing his body apart and enjoying it. Adam doesn’t understand! Since when has he got hit by the monster’s magic? The monster looked at Adam’s head near the Holy Sword then laughed out loud. “Since you came here! You scum!” Author Phan Phuong Dung

IV. FOLKLORE: STORIES ONCE PASSED DOWN ORALLY V. POETRY: WRITING CONCERNED WITH THE BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE

Comedy: has a happy ending

Fantasy: has monsters, magic, or characters with superpowers

THE “MERMAID” GIRL

here is a girl who has lived in New York in the U.S for 18 years. On her 18th birthday, she unexpectedly craves raw seafood and soaks in the water. One day, she discovers that her body has changed and begins to grow scales, so she hastily takes a shower to cleanse her fear, but when she sinks into the tub, her legs suddenly tighten, and gills grow like a fish’s fin. She is so scared that she becomes unconscious. When she wakes up, she finds that her legs have returned to normal, but since then her body has always been in a state of water shortage. As a result, she must always silently soak herself in the bath in the house every day. About two months later, she discovers an anonymous envelope that has been sent home with the recipient’s name as her mother with a herringbone imprint on it. Because she is too curious, she immediately opens it and becomes

Tragedy: ends in death and sadness

FLOWERS OF THANKS AND APOLOGIES” “He’s wearing his wedding ring next to Elena’s photo, recently celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary....” Elena and Josh both graduated from a famous University of Economics in the US, both were in tune with the ideal life when working at the same company. After a year of marriage, the young couple buried their heads in work to prepare for their first child. Elena chose to quit her current job and opened a small online business at home to facilitate moving during her and Josh’s first pregnancy. Seeing her husband working hard every day for his upcoming company project, that night, while Josh fell asleep at his desk after a long day at the company, Elena quietly let her husband rest and silently completed the draft of the project for her husband.

Myth: has gods/goddesses and usually accounts for the creation of something

“EVIL SPIRIT”

ijiku knew about the Goddess of Money and Prosperity statue from a merchant from afar coming to the village to trade goods; this old trader said that thanks to worshiping that Goddess, he became richer and richer. When Jijiku heard about it, he was overjoyed, and when the night came, he sneaked into the merchant’s big boat to steal the Goddess statue and bring it home. That night, when he was sleeping, he dreamed of the Goddess. She was as gorgeous as a white lily, pure and free from the dust of the earth; she wanted him to make an offering to her after her blessing, and he agreed. The next day, he discovered that a large bag of gold suddenly appeared in the house. He was feverish and knelt to the statue and took the gold to build a bigger house. After that, his home had a bag of gold every day; but the richer he was, the more the Goddess wanted him to make offerings. After a month, the Goddess demanded that the offering was a male and female twins. Jijiku woke up startled, breaking out in a cold sweat. He didn’t expect the Goddess to want such a strange offering. That night he did not sleep; he lay awake thinking what to do next. Jijiku remembered that wealthy merchant, and then he realized that that old trader wasn’t bragging. He just wanted to tell the secret about the Goddess statue.

The next morning, Josh rushed to the company to present the project in the shareholders’ meeting, and he discovered that the draft and the project had been corrected without his expectations. He was very annoyed when he had to try to say what was on the project that had not been written by himself. At noon, he called Elena and scolded her a lot for meddling in his business, but he didn’t know that was the last time they would talk to each other. At the end of the day, the Director said that the committee was very pleased with the project idea and decided to promote Josh, so he was very happy and silently went to the flower shop to buy a beautiful bouquet of sunflowers and a cream cheesecake that Elena liked to make her surprised as well as thank his wife. At the same time, he walked out of the flower shop, Elena came in to buy a bunch of white tulips. When he got home, Josh couldn’t find Elena. There was only a small note to him that she would be back soon. Josh was very happy and couldn’t help waiting for his wife every minute until he received a fateful call from the hospital that his wife was injured in a traffic accident while she was on the way home. Josh hurriedly picked up a bouquet of flowers and drove to the hospital, but... it was all too late. Now there was only gloom and sadness left in the room from everyone with the withered bouquet of tulips and the tearful words that Josh regretted for the rest of his life: “I’m so sorry.”

Author Dang Nhat Uyen

Author Phan Phuong Dung

“I love you like a spring day So fresh and so glory I love you like a summer day More lovely and more temperate I love you like a Fall day Cause you are both graceful and gentle I also love you like a Winter day Author Cause love will melt the ice” Le Thi kim Ngoc

Fable: short story with personified animals and a moral

“THE TWO MONKEYS”

III. NONFICTION: WRITING THAT IS TRUE

Author Nguyen Le Phuong Thao

There are 2 monkeys living in the forest. One day, they are very hungry. “Oh I am starving. What a hot day.” one Monkey said. The other one has the same feeling “Let me try to find something edible.” After that, the Monkey goes through the forest, and then he sees a weak rope bridge across an extremely deep abyss. On the opposite side, there are many apple trees with lots of apples on them. Therefore, the Monkey tries to go through the bridge and takes 2 apples back with it to eat. The Monkey which stays back see it and asks “Where did you get that? I want it.” The other tells him all the things. Then this Monkey go to there with a big bag to get more apples. However, when he turns back, he with the bag full of apple is too heavy, and the bridge is not strong enough. Therefore, he falls into the abyss with his apples and dies.

Autobiography: life story written by oneself

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

his diary is based on real events that me, a 10- year-old girl, have witnessed during my childhood. I still remember vividly in those early 2000s, everyone rode such classical motorbikes such as cub, dream, bicycles and there were a few cars. The street scene was not busy, just only a few traffic vehicles. However, in a city seemed to be really quiet, not long way from the center, in a rural village- though to be peaceful with rice fields, white storks were flying, always messy and noisy in one place. It was not a market, it was not a house of culture, either. It’s my own house. The sound of broken bowls, the sound of quarrels, the sound of scuffles, the smoldering cries of children, all that noise created two words: domestic violence

Author Dinh Thi Thanh Tam