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Essay Instructions: The essay should be double spaced with margins of 1 inch on the left, top and bottom and margins of 1.25 inches on the right. 3 pages long using times new roman and 12 point font.The essay must be written in correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.The essay must have a thesis statment that sums up the main idea of the essay. The body of the paper should have a sufficient quantity of evidence to convince the reader of the validity of the argument. That evidence should include specific quotations from the story (ending with page citation in parentheses) and your intrepretations of the quotations. Please include an average number of quotations per page. Please be sure to introduce the quotations and explain their significance after quoting.
Here is my essay topic:
Do a close reading of Richard Wright's "The Man Who was Almost a Man" offer an intrepretation of how the language of this paragraph continues the themes of the story. In the conclusion of many short stories, the protagonist experiences what James Joyce called an "epiphany". Does Wright's character Dave experience an ephiphany? If so, what is it? If not, what does the ending of the story signify?
PLEASE NOTE- THE WRITER CAN CHOOSE WHETHER DAVE EXPERIENCES AN EPHIPHANY OR NOT. IF THE WRITER DECIDES THAT DAVE DOES NOT EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY, PLEASE BE SURE TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE ENDING OF THE SORY SIGNIFIES.

Essay Instructions: Compare Richard Wright's short story, "The Man Who was Almost a Man" with John Updike's short story, "A & P" as they address the transition from childhood into adulthood. Compare Sammy and Dave's conceptions of honor, autonomy, and what it means to be a man.

Discuss imagery- what visual images do the stories evoke? How well?

Discuss use of language- is it complex? Idiomatic? Highly refined?

Discuss tone- is it ironic? Straightforward? Elegiac? Melancholy?

Be sure to cite specific examples from the primary texts, and be sure to explain how they illustrate your points.

Essay Instructions: For my English composition class i need the following "compare and contrast what social comment regarding race Richard Wright and William Faulkner are trying to make using their short stories, ?The Man Who was Almost a Man? and ?That Evening Sun? respectively. Keep in mind that Wright was a black author and Faulkner was a white author. But both men grew up at the same time and in the same state (Mississippi), and both are writing about the South in the 1930s. Your paper should explore both similarities and differences by closely analyzing each story and using specific quotes. I need this paper before 4 pm today. work cited using only two souces mentioned above.The essay also needs a title.




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Essay Instructions: THE two questions must reference the following "6" different stories. The first question, Often a young character goes through some sort of change in a story . These changes may be part of a period of transition, an initiation from innocence to experience, or a jorney toward self-discovery and maturity. The character may also never get through the whole change process and these works are often tragic. Sometimes the climatic change is something like a rebirth a resurrection as a character passes from one world into another. A writer's language often communicates this general theme;the symbolic figurative language is used to symbolize the journey.Consider this "rite of passage" or initiation and explain how it occures to the individual characters and why it is important in "3" of the following stories:Joyce Carol Oate's "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" , John Gardner's "Redemption" , Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man".

The second Question, Sometimes stories concern characters who are rebelling against particular rules or codes of behavior accepted by society. Talk about "3" individual characters from the "3" stories below. What type of rebellion is involved? Are they in conflict with themselves in someway or with the society in general? how do they see themeselves in relation to the way society sees them. How they are rebelling or cnforming to the rules and manners and instructions of the society they are a part of.What sorts of results occur and what do these results suggest for the reader? How does the language in the story tell you how the wtiter feels about each character? Kate Chopin's "The Storm" , Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" , James Joyce's "Counterparts".