For paper 3, your second comparison/contrast essay, advance and argue a thesis that forges a comparison and contrast across any two texts we have read since returning from Spring Break: Tagore’s, “Punishment”, Cesaire’s A Tempest, Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, Naipaul’s “One Out of Many”, Achebe’s “Chike’s School Days”, and Khoury’s, “Pearls on a Branch”.
You must narrow down to a specific topic, then then formulate a specific thesis. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: the resistance to political or social oppression; how individuals negotiate different cultural beliefs and demands; how individuals conform to or defy social expectations; the role of work in determining the individual’s meaning; relationships between husbands and wives, or parents and children; breaking or enforcing the law; how economic forces affect or shape lives and relationships; male rivalry; or building, finding, saving, or fleeing home.
use quotes from the readings and cite them with just the page number in parentheses. No Works cited page is required for this assignment.
