The new millennium reader / 3rd ed.


REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE 27
Nonfiction
Jill Nelson Number One! 28
Fritz Peters Boyhood with Gurdjieff 31
Beryl Markham West with the Night 35
Douchan Gersi Initiated into an an Tribe of Headhunters 43
Lesley Hazleton Confessions of a Fast Woman 47
Annie Dillard So, This Was Adolescence 51
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of The Latin Woman: I Just Met a
Girl Named Maria 54
Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper 58
Jerzy Kosinski The Miller's Tale 70
Poetry
T. S. Eliot The Love Song ofJ. Alfred Prufrock 75
William Shakespeare Sonnet 30 80
Sara Teasdale The Solitary 81
Anna Kamiehska Funny 82
Connections for Chapter 1:
Reflections on Experience 83



2 INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE AND MEMORABLE
PLACES 85
Nonfiction
Maya Angelou Liked for Myself 85
Raymond Carver My Father's Life 89
Gayle Pemberton Antidisestablishmentarianism 95
Mikhal Gilmore My Brother, Gary Gilmore 102
P. D. Ouspensky The Taj Mahal: The Soul of the Empress
Mumtaz-i-Mahal 112
William Zinsser Niagara Falls 122
Joseph Addison Reflections in Westminster Abbey 129
Fatima Mernissi Moonlit Nights of Laughter 131
Fiction
John Cheever Reunion 135
Bessie Head Looking for a Rain God 138
Poetry
Cathy Song The Youngest Daughter 141
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays 143
William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802 144
Connections for Chapter 2:
Influential People and Memorable
Places 145
3 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION 147
Nonfiction
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write 147
Jonathan Kozol The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society 152
Mary Crow Dog Civilize Them with a Stick 159
Richard Rodriguez On Becoming a Chicano 165
William A. Henry III In Defense of Elitism 171
David Rothenberg How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students'
Research Papers 175
John Milton Areopagitica: Defense of Books 178
Nat Hentoff "Speech Codes" on the Campus and Problems of
Free Speech 180



Fiction
Donald Barthelme The School 186
Poetry
Francis E. W. Harper Learning to Read 189
Linda Hogan Workday 190
Connections for Chapter 3:
The Value of Education 192
PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE 194
Nonfiction
Susanne K. Langer Language and Thought 194
Helen Keller The Day Language Came Into My Life 199
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures 201
Alison Lurie The Language of Clothes 205
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation 210
Stuart Hirschberg The Rhetoric of Advertising 214
Aldous Huxley Propaganda Under a Dictatorship 222
Margaret Atwood Pornography 228
Fiction
Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About
Love 233
Poetry
Ted Hughes Crow Goes Hunting 242
Drama
David Ives Words, Words, Words 244
Connections for Chapter 4:
Perspectives on Language 251



5 ISSUES IN POPULAR CULTURE 252
Nonfiction
Juliet B. Schor The Culture of Consumerism 252
Slavenka Drakulie On Bad Teeth 262
Neil Postman and Steve Powers TV News as Entertainment 267
Jan Harold Brunvand Urban Legends: "The Boyfriend's
Death" 272
Kim Chernin The Flesh and the Devil 280
Philip Slater Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness 286
Arthur Ashe The Burden of Race 290
Ann Louise Bardach The Stealth Virus: AIDS and Latinos 294
Fiction
Kate Chopin Dsiree's Baby 298
Guy de Maupassant An Old Man 302
Poetry
Marge Piercy Barbie Doll 305
Grace Caroline Bridges Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 307
Bruce Springsteen Streets of Philadelphia 308
Drama
Betty Keller Tea Party 309
Connections for Chapter 5:
Issues in Popular Culture 314
6 OUR PLACE IN NATURE 316
Nonfiction
Mark Twain The Lowest Animal 316
Alice Walker Am I Blue? 321
Ursula K. Le Guin A Very Warm Mountain 325
Joseph K. Skinner Big Mac and the Tropical Forests 331
Thor Heyerdahl How to Kill an Ocean 336
Linda Hogan Waking Up the Rake 344
P. J. O'Rourke The Greenhouse Affect 348



Fiction
Natsume Soseki I Am a Cat 354
Lin Sutherland A River Ran Over Me 364
Poetry
Mary Oliver Sleeping in the Forest 369
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Sound of the Sea 370
Connections for Chapter 6:
Our Place in Nature 371
HISTORY IN THE MAKING 372
Nonfiction
Linda Simon The Naked Source 373
Howard Carter Finding the Tomb 377
Kenneth M. Stampp To Make Them Stand in Fear 383
Haunani-Kay Trask From a Native Daughter 386
Jack London The San Francisco Earthquake 395
Hanson W. Baldwin R. M. S. Titanic 400
John Hersey A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima 410
Fiction
Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 419
Irene Zabytko Home Soil 427
Poetry
Bertolt Brecht A Worker Reads History 432
Eleni Fourtouni Child's Memory 433
David R. Slavitt Titanic 435
Connections for Chapter 7:
History in the Making 436



8 THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE 438
Nonfiction
Thomas Paine Rights of Man 439
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 442
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream 446
Golda Meir We Have Our State 450
Rae Yang At the Center of the Storm 455
Luis Sepulveda Daisy 466
Fiction
Albert Camus The Guest 471
Luisa Valenzuela The Censors 481
Poetry
W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen 483
Margaret Atwood At First I Was Given Centuries 485
Drama
V6clav Havel Protest 487
Connections for Chapter 8:
The Pursuit of Justice 506
9 THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY 508
Nonfiction
Gina Kolata A Clone Is Born 508
Anne Taylor Fleming Sperm in a Jar 521
Constance Holden Identical Twins Reared Apart 526
Carol Grunewald Monstersof the Brave New World 533
Umberto Eco How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular
Phone 538
LynNell Hancock The Haves and the Have-Nots 541
Bill Gates The Road Ahead 544



Fiction
John Cheever The Enormous Radio 552
Poetry
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 560
Peggy Seeger I'm Gonna Be an Engineer 561
Connections for Chapter 9:
The Impact of Technology 563
THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE 565
Nonfiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. How to Write with Style 565
Anne Tyler Still Just Writing 569
Alice Munro What Is Real? 576
Wilson Bryan Key The Exorcist Massage Parlor 580
Sheila Whiteley Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style, and Image 584
Mary McCarthy The Paradox of St. Mark's 595
Lance Morrow Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle 598
Photo: Eddie Adams General Nguyen Ngoc Loan 601
Fiction
Junichiro Tanizaki The Tattooer 602
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book 607
Emily Dickinson Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant 608
Lawrence Ferlinghetti In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See
(1958) 609
Illustration: Francisco Goya The Third of May 1808 611
Connections for Chapter 10:
The Artistic Impulse 611



11 MATTERS OF ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND
RELIGION 614
Nonfiction
(il-cence Darrow The Myth of Immortality 615
Dinitia Smith Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious
One? 622
Hans Ruesch Slaughter of the Innocent 626
Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the
Poor 637
Stephen Chapman The Prisoner's Dilemma 646
Tim O'Brien If I Die in a Combat Zone 653
Langston Hughes Salvation 657
Fiction
H. G. Wells The Country of the Blind 659
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You
Been? 676
Parables
Plato The Allegory of the Cave 689
Matthew Parables in the New Testament 693
The Buddha "Buddha-nature" and "The Way of
Purification" 698
Nasreddin Hodja Islamic Folk Stories 700
Poetry
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken 701
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 703
Lisel Mueller Hope 704
W. B. Yeats The Second Coming 705
Connections for Chapter 11:
Matters of Ethics, Philosophy, and
Religion 706