Read three of the following stories, poems, and essays. Once you have read the three works, respond to this question: What is an implied claim on the subject of knowledge and individual power?
Randall Kenan, "The Foundations of the Earth"
Emily Dickinson, "Much madness is divinest sense"
Alma Luz Villanueva, "Crazy Courage"
Sherman Alexie, "Superman and Me"
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark"
Langston Hughes, "Theme for English 'B'"