Please select one of the following topics and write a critically focused and textually detailed essay (1200-1500 words) in response:

Define and discuss the human return to nature and quasi-religious experience of the wilderness and animal life in one or more stories in Faulkner’s Big Woods.
Define and discuss Sam Fathers as a human embodiment of three races and their cultures as they both converge and diverge in one or more stories in Big Woods.
Define and discuss the Nephew and Harry Haller as related, counter-balanced characters both attracted to and repulsed by one another in Hesse’s Steppenwolf.
Define and discuss the Magic Theater as an illustration of the multitudinous nature of Harry Haller’s psyche (and that of human beings, generally) in Steppenwolf.