“Everyday Use” is a short story by Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple. These are both famous African-American feminist literary works. Alice Walker credits Zora Nell Hurston, a famous African-American literary figure and scholar that spent her final years in nearby Fort Pierce, Florida. Back in the late 1970s, Alice Walker found the […]
What are your thoughts about Good Will Hunting? What do you notice about the screenwriting? The story structure? The characters? The setting? The dialogue? The plot? What works and what doesn’t in your view, and why? Please identify three or four of the major beats in the film. Can you identify the catalyst? What sets […]
Objective: Demonstrate the ability to use different ideological perspectives and analyses on the same figure and evaluate this figure through these perspectives. What does this mean? Show that you can see the world through completely different lenses by evaluating one character several different ways. The Parable of the Sower is a novel that explores concepts […]
Compare and contrast a selected theme, for example, revenge from recent readings. Discuss the motives of specific characters. Who is more/less justified in their actions? What are the differences in the behavior? Defend your choices with examples from the readings. Which characters are more/less sympathetic? What unintended consequences follow from the actions of these individuals? […]
