Four Summers | Topics for Further Study
• Write a story of your own emotional development from childhood through adolescence or adulthood (whichever is appropriate) following the method laid out by Oates in ‘‘Four Summers’’. Do this by writing about an event or events in four different summers.
• Reflect on your own experiences as a fourteenyear- old. Is Oates’s representation of Sissie’s thinking and behavior in the third section typical of someone that age? Discuss as a class.
• Compose a list of your parents’ character traits, and then compare them with the lists of other students....
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