"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and "The Lottery"

 

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/david-brooks-the-child-in-the-basement.html?_r=0

http://www.tor.com/2015/11/19/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-is-beautiful-in-map-form/

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/ursula-k-le-guins-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/

http://www.teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/133226/The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas-by-Ursula-K-Le-Guin/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/25/688925/-

"The Lottery"

Articles on tradition:

This article discusses how different cultures address death:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/local/la-me-0819-lopez-dyingwell-20120819

This link discusses American Culture:
http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm

Here is a link to what The Bible has to say about culture:
http://www.openbible.info/topics/traditions

This is an interesting look at how different cultures have different traditions when it comes to childcare:
http://alphamom.com/parenting/interesting-parenting-traditions-from-different-cultures/




Somebody made a short movie based on the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV03h3XWTDU

Criticism:
http://home.netwood.net/kosenko/jackson.html

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Jackson.htm
GROUPTHINK:
http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm

http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/groups/groupthink.html

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/how-groupthink-gets-reality-ba.html?utm_content=buffer54149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"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