Instruction
For this week, chose up to 3 topic ideas for your upcoming fina literary essayl paper (in week 8)
You are only providing IDEAS for your instructor's approval for this week's assignment (do not write the paper yet)!
For your final essay (due week 8), write a literary analysis on any of the course readings. Come up with a thesis statement or question and support/answer it in a 2-3 paged, double-spaced, typed essay. Use specific examples from the text(s) to support your answers. Utilize proper MLA in-text citation and documentation guidelines. After the second week of classes please email me your essay idea, you must first present it to me for approval before beginning.
Please note that Catcher In The Rye will not be an acceptable source for your topic unless you have an extremely unique thesis topic/idea.
required textbook:
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street
Satrapi, Marjane, The Complete Persepolis
Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. Edited by Faith Adiele and Mary Forsch
AND I WANT TO WRITE ANSWERES FOR THESE QUISTONES:
a-In what way is the form and rhyme scheme in Sylvia Plaths poem Daddy so vital and ironic to the overall feel and point/meaning of the poem? Why does Plath use the metaphor of Nazi Germany and call herself a Jew? (pages 1-7 by Plath and "Daddy" is the first two pages).
b-Like Plath you will notice that Di Brandts form is also fitting of her content. In Di Brandts poetry how does form fit content in terms of her lifestyle choices and quest for truth and individuality? (pages 8-15 of the document).
C-In The Long White by Jan Beatty why is the narrator so vulnerable? Why has this girl been getting in cars with men all her life? And who is she truly looking for? (towards the end of the file,Beatty poems are16-24. Pages 20 and 21 are "The Long White" of the scanned document).
D-How does the narrator pay homage to no name woman and at the same time express fear of her in the short story No Name Woman by Maxine Kingston Hong? How would the fate of the baby be different had it been a boy? Discuss the expectations of females in this culture, how do they differ? Why do the villagers raid the house? The author gives us many possibilities for how her aunt may have become pregnant, why does she do this? Obviously she doesnt know enough about her aunt because the aunt is a shameful family member that they pretend does not exist but dig deeper! Why all of the possible scenarios?