Read through the following possibilities for a paper topic, choose one, and, following the guidelines in your syllabus (using a heading like the one above, with your name in place of the first line), write an essay 1000-1500 words long on the topic. You must integrate specific passages from your texts as part of your analysis, and you must choose a text we have not discussed in class. Keep in mind that non-fiction is labeled in your book as “ essay” in the table of contents. MLA format is expected.
Choose an autobiographical text considering authorship and historical moment, and write an essay focused on how one of the following helps us to understand the nature of the writer’s purpose: temporality, (physical) space, audience and addressee, memory (meanings of & sources of). Be sure to cite specific examples.
Need Works Cited in MLA.
Use Text: “I, the Juror” by Joyce Carol Oates
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