In his 1979 book “The Postmodern Condition,” Jean-François Lyotard he argued that __________________ (sometimes called meta-narratives) were collapsing in postmodern society.

No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been nine years growing and now, when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird’s sake? The murmur of the pine’s green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away. The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

  As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist Church every Sunday. But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leartherett Bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life.  It’s been there for over twenty years. The above passage comes from ___________________ written by __________________ .

To them I owe all that I became,Judge, member of Congress, leader in the State. 5From my mother I inheritedVivacity, fancy, language;From my father will, judgment, logic.All honor to themFor what service I was to the people. The above lines come from ___________________ written by ___________________.

I lie here on this great immovable bed -it is nailed down, I believe -and fol­low that pattern about by the hour. It it as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I start, we’ll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has nos been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a con­clusion. The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

Why, it never made no difference to him—he would bet on anything—the dangdest feller.Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t going to save her;but one morning he come in, and Smiley asked how she was, and he said she was considerable better thank the Lord for his inf’nit mercy and coming on so smart that, with the blessing of Providence, she’d get well yet; and Smiley, before he thought, says, “Well, I’ll risk two-and-a-half that she don’t, anyway.” The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

She thrilled with the sense of the arm round her; what if that should be lost? He laughed as if divining her: “Oh, it doesn’t run in the family, as far as I know!” Then he added gravely: “He came home with misgivings about war, and they grew on him. I guess he and mother agreed between them that I was to be brought up in his final mind about it; but that was before my time. I only knew him from my mother’s report of him and his opinions; I don’t know whether they were hers first; but they were hers last. This will be a blow to her. I shall have to write and tell her–” The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

Shall I part my hair behind?   Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. The above lines come from ___________________ written by ___________________.

The first time she had been so surprised she didn’t cry out or try to defend herself.  She had always said she would strike back if a man, any man, were to strike her. The above passage comes from ___________________ written by ____________________________.

Mrs. Tilley gave amazed attention to all this, but Sylvia still watched the toad, not divining, as she might have done at some calmer time, that the creature wished to get to its hole under the door-step, and was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that hour of the evening. No amount of thought, that night, could decide how many wished-for treasures the ten dollars, so lightly spoken of, would buy. The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.