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Essay Instructions: Assignment: In 4-5 double-spaced pages, use the required texts to make an argument about Coming of Age stories.
Research Question: What key stages are central to Coming of Age stories in general, how are these elements presented in the required texts, and finally, what aspects make these stories most compelling?
Required Texts:
1) ?Goodbye to All That? by Joan Didion
2) ?The Things They Carried? by Tim O?Brien
3) ?On the Rainy River? by Tim O?Brien
4) ?Saved? by Malcolm X (part of the ?Learning to Read? section of his Autobiography)

Paper 4 Parameters:
1) 2-part title with a colon
2) Introductory Paragraph that engages the reader, contextualizes the subject, and presents
3) A 2-sentence Thesis Statement that specifically answers the RQ.
4) Body Paragraphs that summarize and analyze each required text as a Coming of Age story.
5) A Body Paragraph that presents a Coming of Age story of your own, including analysis of its similarly key stages.
6) A Concluding Paragraph that drives home the essential and most compelling aspects of this genre.
7) Works Cited page with each required text in proper MLA format.
Naturally, in order to argue which are the most key aspects of Coming of Age stories, you will need to summarize and analyze each of our required texts. You will need to quote from important passages in order to support your argument with specific evidence. Further, you will need to compose a brief 1-paragraph Coming of Age story of your own, and analyze its similarly key aspects. Then you will need to conclude powerfully by analyzing what elements of these stories most compel readers, most allow them to feel the power of the narratives.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE EXACTLY AS THEY ARE!

Essay Instructions: Many of the stories we read explore a character's "coming of age" or a character coming to an important realization about life. Use three of the stories we read and explain how each one represents this idea. Be sure to be specific regarding how the character comes to his/her realization and be sure to use 2-3 direct quotations from each story for support. Be sure to type the quotation properly and include in-text citation (author's last name and page if you have one). Conclude the essay by tying the three stories together. The title of the story should be creative.

Sourced materials:

"The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan

All of these stories can be found in the book 40 Short Stories 4th ed.

Essay Instructions: Midterm Exam
Q) Write about what the concept, "Coming of Age" has come to mean to you in the context of the works studied such as Hosseini Khaled's "The Kite Runner", Rachlin Nahid's "Persian Girls", "Season of Migration" by Tayeb Salih, KANDAHAR (movie by Mohsin Makhmalbaf), and SUGAR-CANE ALLEY ( another film). Which individuals, in which texts (literary and filmic), come of age? How? Can cultures or societies be said to "come of age"? why or why not? Have you, as reader, come of age in some way as a result of these readings? How so?

Write a well-edited, coherent essay, explaining your understanding of this idea, and its application to reading and interpretive practices or "the politics of reading" (You may ask certain types of questions in your paper, because we don't all have the answers.)

Be SURE to include, as examples, appropriate references and quotes from the texts you discuss, and cite these correctly, using the MLA format, which can be googled easily if you don't know it. Its basically a method of citing within the text, for eg.,
Hosseini writes, "......" ( title of work, followed by p. #). Then, at the end of your paper, you provide a "Works Cited" section, in which you cite the name of the author, last name first, followed by title of work(s), place and date of publication. IN your paper, titles of full-length works, such as novels or films, are to be underlined or set in bold. Longer quotes (3 or more lines) are indented and single-spaced.

Please do not double space in between new paragraphs...Thank you

Essay Instructions: Look for t the attached file about assignment

use the following source :
1.coming of age in mississippi ,anne moody

http://books.google.com/books?id=bWwPIHNdEZoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false