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Essay Instructions: August Wilson" Fences"


* A 4 page litererary research paper investigating pertinent issues or thems.
* Focusing on 1 primary source
* utilize 1 primary source and 4 secondary sources.
* no more than 1 internet website.
* A tittle
* A bibliography/works
* Use MLA style for doumenting sources

Essay Instructions: August Wilson introduces the importance of Christianity in African American lives especially in the characters of Toledo, Cutler, and Levee in the play:"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."

Essay Instructions: 1100 words essay for ENGWR 301 on symbolism in Fences by August Wilson. Discuss the symbolism in Fences. How does Wilson use ?natural? symbols such as baseball (and football), the garden, the trumpet, and legal papers to represent the characters and their concerns and dilemmas. How does the final scene unify the symbolic significance of the play? Assess its significance in terms of theme and structure.

The thesis and evidence from the play should be the result of your own interpretation; in other words, the questions above are a guide, not an argument. Make sure to formulate a strong, original thesis and to support it with direct quotations from the play. Show how you interpret the significance of these quotations and how they fit into the overall reading enunciated in your paper.
For help in formulating your thesis, look at ?Writing about Drama? on 11-114 of the Meyers text. Also look at Meyer?s ?Glossary of Literary Terms ?(1651-1675) for help in understanding the meaning of terms such as ?symbol,?

You have to use direct quotations from the "Fences" only. Please list information on edition of Fences you use in Bibliography and refer to the page number of this edition each time you use the quote from the play as work cited.

Essay Instructions: A Documented Character Analysis Essay on "Fences" by August Wilson. This paper should analyze the relationship between a specific characterization and a major theme of the play. The thesis should support the characterization in relationship to a theme(12 font, doubled space, MLA format).Choose one significant charcteristic and demonstrate how that quality parallels events, symbols, or objects in the narrative (e.g. a character's single-miinded pursuit of X, causes him to do A,B, and C). This paper must also have a tittle