Instruction
Please address one of the following: Write an essay discussing how Wilson uses the hostility between father and son in Fences as a means of treating larger social issues for blacks in America. Read the section in your textbook on historical criticism (Chapter 47) and then discuss how useful and accurate you think Fences is in depicting black life in America for the past several decades. In addition to using specific quotes from the story or stories, you should utilize at least one additional outside credible source. Essays must be in MLA format The Bedford Handbook provides a guide (MLA Chapters 48 to 51) Essays should be a minimum of 1,000 words Meyer, Michael. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing, 11th ed., Macmillan Learning, 2017. Modern drama, including realism and beyond realism, are explored in the materials. Chapter 43: Modern Drama Naturalism Beyond Realism Selected literary work “Fences” by August Williams, found in Chapter 46 Article related to the play "Fences". http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-fences-august-wilson-20161215-story.html (Links to an external site.) Recommended Reading Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. The Bedford Handbook, 11th ed., Macmillan Learning, 2020. Chapter 5-Evaluating academic arguments involves looking for errors such as fallacies in logic, generalizations, and false analogies. All of these are explained in this handbook section.