This essay is a comparative one, in which you will discuss two texts. The topic for this essay is open, but consider the following themes and issues. This essay should analyze textual specifics; DO NOT merely summarize the plot and attach a moral to the end.

Themes:
-Citizenship, cultural identity, self-identification
-choice, agency, free will, self-awareness
-The Other-defining, identifying with or from, empathizing with the other
-Truth: acceptance, denial, complicating it, misunderstanding it
-Gender: construction of women, racialization and gender, masculinity and identity
-Meaning: Language, ethics, epistemology

Stories: http://kenliu.name/stories/single-bit-error/
-The Goose Father