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Essay #2

World Literature

 

 

Using your choice of the last several readings, write an essay analyzing the effects of colonization on the characters.  You may write about one reading or compare the effects in two or more readings. 

 

 

Choose from the following readings for this essay:

 

Filipino Literature:

“Negros”  Eileen Tabios

“Assimilation” Eugene Gloria

 

New Zealand Literature:

Once Were Warriors  Alan Duff

 

Native American Literature:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie

“Ruby’s Answer” Esther Belin

“In the Cycle of the Whirl” Esther Belin

 

 

Essay length:  6 pages

Rough draft due:  Monday 12/8

Final draft due:  Monday 12/15 in my mailbox room 8110 (Language Arts office) by 3:00 p.m.

 

No late essays will be accepted