Writing Literature You will plan, write, and revise a short narrative story that explores an appropriate theme and is at least five
pages long. Be sure to follow the steps of the writing process to ensure a polished final draft.

Part A
Outlining
Using your notes during the brainstorming process, begin outlining as you develop the structure and elements
of your story. Outlining helps organize and develop your characters and plot. As you form your outline, write
down the order of events as you see them. Remember, your short narrative should be at least five pages in
length and should discuss a consistent theme throughout. Writing a story is a fluid process, so you may notice
that your initial plan changes periodically as you outline and draft your story.
Type the outline of your story in the space provided.

choice 2 i like that prompt better.

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

is the answer