Write an essay that compares and contrasts "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol to another magical realist story, focusing mainly on the tone of the two stories. How does their

e differ? What does their tone have in common?

Your second story should be one that you find through research, but make sure it fits

the magical realist genre. Look back over the lesson and ask yourself if it has the

appropriate tone and subject matter. Consider what evidence from both stories best

supports your claim (or thesis), and make sure you present this evidence in the form

of quotes and paraphrases. Also make sure you avoid plagiarism.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.