Amazon.com description: Product Description: EMC's literature program, Mirrors and Windows: Connecting with Literature, provides opportunities for you to explore new worlds full of people, cultures, and perspectives different from your own. This book contains stories, essays, play and poems by outstanding authors from around the globe. Reading these selections will expand your appreciation of literature and your world view. Studying them will help you examine universal themes such as honesty, integrity, and justice and common emotions such as fear, pride, and belonging. You may already have thought about some of these ideas and feelings yourself. As you read the selections in this book, try to see yourself in the characters, stories, and themes.