Ⅰ.The Person: What Is a Human Being?
A&P/John Updike
Lullaby /Leslie Marmon Silko
The Lady with the Dog /Anton Chekho
The Kiss/Anton Chekho
Ⅱ.Personal Struggle: What Adversaries Do Human Beings Face?
My Kinsman,Major Molineux/Nathaniel Hawthorne
On the Road/Langston Hughes
Coffee Break/Langston Hughes
How the "Soviet"Robinson Crusoe Was Written /Ilya If and Eugeni Petrov
Ⅲ.Conduct: How Should a Person Act
Soldier's Home/Ernest Hemingway
Barn Burning /William Faulkner
He/Doris Lessing
The Heroine/Isak Dinesen
Ⅳ.Values: What Should a Person Value
Greenleaf/Flannery O'Connor
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow/Kurt Vonnegut,Jr
The Skylark and the Frog/Chuang-Tzu
The Lottery/Shirley Jackson
Ⅴ.Outlook: What Views of Existence Can a Person Have
The Wall /Jean-Paul Sartre
The Story of an Hour/Kate Chopin
The Maker/Jorge Luis Borges
Gimpel the Fool/Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ⅵ.Purpose: For What Ends Can a Person Live
Flowering Judas/Katherine Anne Porte
"Repent,Harlequin!"Said the Ticktockman/Harlan Ellison
Quality/John Galsworthy
The Student/Anton Chekhov