Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Juniors - Essay #2



Attention cadets!  Tomorrow, we'll be blasting off into writing our essay!  Be sure to suit up and consider the following sketch of your upcoming essay!  Adventure awaits!



In this essay, we will be analyzing a particular theme that spans across two of our three works.  Your responsibility is to choose a theme/topic and determine Melville’s motives in employing such ideas throughout these stories.

You will be responsible for writing a four-paragraph essay.  You only need to trace your theme through two of the three Melville stories we have read.

Please select one of the following themes:

Rebellion/Mutiny
Perceptions of race
The unreliable narrator
The individual versus society
The significance of setting
The juxtaposition of separate ideologies

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