Category: American literature

600 word, double spaced reading response based on the Great Gatsby (up to chapter 4). make a manageable but intriguing point about how Gatsby is more calculated than he appears. please explore how he curates how others see him through things such as silence, distance, wealth display and scripted personal history. include a argument that supports the thesis

3 page paper MLA on Why do you think Amercian Literature important?

Only use sources from JSTOR, MLA International Bibliography, or Project Muse. This is 6 sources. Briefly summarize the sources most pertinent points for my argument and context. Deliver a sense of why the source is essential to my research. Give an understanding of what makes the source scholarly. Explain how you plan to use it. Separate from this, include a list of topic sentences. All sentences identify the main idea of a potential paragraph and assert the point made about the subject.

Using 2 captivity narratives, Harriet Jacobs (incidents of a slave girl) & Frederick Douglass( narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American slave) to produce a well developed academic essay that answers the following prompt: What link between these two narratives do you find most compelling? this argument should produce a narrow, focused thesis that responds to the prompt. The argument should be a narrow and thorough discussion of an important link between the two narratives.