The big trip up yonder answers

As you explored three major categories this week with modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonial literature, what were your favorite author and short story of the readings? Why?

For your initial post, choose one of the readings to discuss. Please refer to the specific elements of the category that you found in the text as well as direct quotes and lines from the reading. You may choose more than one story if you like, but the minimum is to discuss at least one of the short story readings in detail.

Name the work and author
Give at least three examples from the reading
Explain how what characteristics were evident in the story that made it modernist, post-modernist, or postcolonial according to your course content lessons folder. Please note: You may include magical realism under the post-colonial category.
Readings:

Reading -
Haddon, M. (2003). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, third 50 pages. Note: this text does not have traditional page numbers.

Modernist Period (select one):

Yiu, A. (2013). Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Scenes of the Mind, pp. 50-61.

Yiu, A. (2013). Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. The Sound of Footsteps, pp. 62-66.

Post-Modernist Period:

Vonnegut, K. (2016). Cat’s cradle. In Selected works of Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's cradle, Galapagos, the big trip up yonder, unready to wear (pp. 12-21). New York, NY: RosettaBooks.

Post-Colonial Period (select one):

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" by Karen Russell.

Tagore, R. (2013). The Short Stories Of Rabindranath Tagore - Vol 1. [London, England]: Miniature Masterpieces. The Hungry Stones, pp. 42-50.