You have 3 separate questions to respond to. Make sure I can tell which question you are responding to. You have 6 essays to choose from, you cannot use the same essay for all 3 questions with the exception of the Audre Lorde and the Christina Enriquez, which you may need to use twice. .
1. How are the themes (what the story is about) of “silencing” ( keeping quiet or being afraid to speak) and “finding your voice” ( being bold, ambitious, angry enough to do something) shown in one of the essays we read from a male author and one of the essays we read from a female author? Use one direct/specific quote from each essay; write at least ten sentences for each response. (50 points)
How are the male points of view different and similar to the female points of view in regards to our authors? Consider all 6 authors (Alexie, Douglass, Malcolm X, Christina Henriquez, Hughes and Audra Lorde and their essays in terms of overall tone, subject matter, and language. For this question, respond with at least 10 sentences for the male point of view and 10 sentences for the female point of view.. Use one direct quote for each response/point of view. (50 points) It is your choice which authors to use with respect to the direct quote.
3. Discuss the significance of the following quote from one of the essays:
“The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington D.C., that summer I left a childhood was white, and the white heat and the white pavement and white stone monuments of my first Washington summer made me sick to my stomach for the rest of that trip and it wasn’t much of a graduation present after all.”
a. From which story is this quote taken?
b. What is the context: character, narrator, situation (what is happening or has happened), setting where the story takes place?
c. What is the significance of the word ” white”?
d. What major theme of this story does this quote support?
e. How does this story relate to the others read so far in class?
