FINAL PAPERS--NO CLASSES THIS WEEK!

THE LAST POSSIBLE DAY TO HAND I N PAPERS IS THURSDAY APRIL 23 TO 1141 IN THE RED AREA.

ALL FINAL GRADES WILL BE POSTED ON MYECC DURING THE LAST WEEK OF APRIL.

Good Database for Outside Sources

Academia.edu

You'll need to create an account but there are many articles here that will be useful. They are all reliable.

Just create an account and search documents for the texts we cover in class.

Here is the link for A Raisin in the Sun:

https://www.academia.edu/people/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=a+raisin+in+the+sun

Essay 3--MON/WED DUE MON APRIL 13***TUE/THURS DUE TUES APRIL 14

Essay 3
MON/WED DUE MON APRIL 13

TUE/THURS DUE TUES APRIL 14

 

Use 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES (NO OUTSIDE SOURCES=FAIL)

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

 

1)      Explain the role of God and/or religion in (at least TWO) “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” and Life of Pi. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

2)      The issue of whether The Misfit had grace or not was discussed in class. Pick a side of the argument and defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

A Raisin in the Sun

1.      Each of the characters in the Younger family has a particular individual dream. One wants to move to a bigger home, one wants to attend medical school, one wants to rise above his conditions though does not necessarily have a plan to do so. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the functions of dreams in A Raisin in the Sun. Consider whether there was a way to make each individual dream compatible with others’ dreams. If so, explain why the characters did not identify this alternative.

2.      Oftentimes, seemingly minor characters can actually have great significance to either the meaning or the actions of the play. In A Raisin in the Sun there is a handful of minor characters, including Mr. Linder, Bobo, Willy, George and Joseph, who are significant to the play. Choose one or more of the minor characters in A Raisin in the Sun and write an essay in which you analyze the roles that they play in the development of the thematic content of A Raisin in the Sun. Assess whether the inclusion of these minor characters is necessary to develop the play’s message. Defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

3.      Compare the three women from play and explain where they differed and what separated them throughout the play.

4.       How is the American Dream expressed in each member of the Younger family: Walter, Ruth, Lena (Mama), and Beneatha?

5.      How would you compare the struggles of the Younger family to that of the family we see in Pursuit of Happyness?

6.       Joseph Assaigai, George Murchinson, Ruth's Pregnancy, Beneatha's hair, Mr. Lindner, the new house, the money from the insurance policy, and Lena's plant. In what sense are these people, events, and/or objects symbolic? How do they further our understanding of the play?

More on Raisin in the Sun

1950s American Dream and Civil Rights:

http://social.dol.gov/blog/the-1950s/

http://africanamericans1950-1960.weebly.com/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html#0816

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

How to Quote a Play

QUOTING DIALOGUE

Indent the speakers one inch from the left margin. All other lines are indented one and a quarter inches. The speakers should be written in all capital letters, followed by a period. Include stage directions as they appear in the original source. Cite the page number as you would for any other quoted prose.

Early on in the play “A Raisin in the Sun,” Walter explodes when Ruth refuses to

listen to his ideas:

     RUTH. Eat your eggs, Walter.

     WALTER. (Slams the table and jumps up) --DAMN MY EGGS--DAMN ALL THE

     EGGS THAT EVER WAS!

     RUTH. Then go to work.

     WALTER. (Looking up at her) See--I’m trying to talk to you ‘bout

     myself--(Shaking his head with the repetition)--and all you can say is

     eat them eggs and go to work. (34)

Be sure to explain the quote in your own words afterwards.

A Raisin in the Sun

Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sun

http://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331

You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:

https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles


American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/12/10/many-feel-the-american-dream-is-out-of-reach-poll-shows/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

Life of Pi

Here is the IMDB.COM page for the film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Interviews with the author of the novel:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/26/fiction

http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/yann-martel-interview/

Other articles about the novel/film:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/French-director-swept-away-by-Life-of-Pi-2565015.php

http://www.theministryrookie.com/2013/02/25/does-the-life-of-pi-prove-the-existence-of-god/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/fiction.reviews1