Multicultural Literature – Essay- for the “The Leavers” Novel

This assignment is split into 3 questions one long essay (3 pages) and 2 short essays (2 pages each) for a tototal of 7 pages minimum. Make sure to mark the begining of each question with the number assoicated with the below
Please read the directions carefully was there are lots of them. Coming from my instructor not from me.

#1 Immigrant Literature: (26 pts., minimum of three quotes) Immigrant literature typically portrays characters’ experiences after they have migrated and as they experiece surprise, disappointment, challenges, and opportunities in the United States. Often these characters experience a split sense of identity, especially if they live in two language cultures. They may meet this through assimilation, cultural separatism, or acculturation, which may take the form of cultural syncretism (the formation of a third, hybrid culture). Pick a character from The Leavers and explain how the character responds to crossing borders. What strategies help him or her to survive or thrive? What circumstances hobble his or her ability to survive or thrive?

Concepts: Answer the two of the questions below and answer in a minimum of two full pages. (12 pts. each, minimum of two quotes in each)

#2 Much of our focus in the African American literature section of the course has been on the rhetorical methods a performer or writer might use to effect social change. These methods include appropriation (of a term, a symbol, a text, or a cultural form from the dominant culture), abrogation, and historical recovery. Using “New Jesus” (linked) and explain how the writer uses one or more of these tools and what the impact of this use is.

#3 Drawing on the concepts of cultural appropriation and cultural syncretism, identify a moment or moments in “The Water Musem” and explain the effect of cultural borrowing of one sort or another. Does this moment offer insight into one or the other culture? Does it have a positive impact on a group or groups of people? Do you think this is an offensive moment of cultural borrowing? If so, why?

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