1. "Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor
"They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" ... They are not comfortable with him calling them out on their materialistic ways and pointing out that none of those things matter when you leave this world. The parish sits in the pews with their rose colored glasses on, unwilling to see things as they really are. ... The reader sees that Willie has figured out how terribly wrong things are in Linden Hills. ... He eventually brought back a young wife, whose name is not even mentioned, who gave him a son to carry on his father's work in the morgue and the building up of the ...
- Word Count: 2802
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School