Synthesize your understanding of one of the essays with your interpretation of the novel/film in order to construct an argument that you could not have made through close reading alone.
Using a critical lens informed by one secondary text (Jamaica Kincaid’s “Small Place” or George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”), write a 1,000-1,200-word critical lens analysis of a primary text (Waiting for the Barbarians or The Quiet American). For this essay, make an argument about how the selected primary text adds to, challenges, or complicates one … Read more