The final paper demonstrates to me that you can analyze a literary text and understand the historical and cultural context in which it was written. For your final paper, write one well-crafted essay of approximately 1,200 words (not including the Works Cited page) about one of the reading assignments covered in this course. This assignment is worth a possible 100 points.
Man of La Mancha Question
1. Research how colonization and globalization have affected Taiwan, and then explain the effect of these forces on the narrator’s life.
Drown Questions
1. Analyze the following excerpt to determine Yunior’s relationship with Beto and his own Latino identity: “I sit near the sign that runs the pool during the day: No Horseplay, No Running, No Defecting, No Urinating, No expectorating . . .Beto hadn’t known what expectorating meant though he was the one leaving for college . . . Even then I didn’t tell him; he thought I didn’t read, not even dictionaries (1243, emphasis in original). Is he ashamed of his ability to read?
2. Why is the story told in a combination of Spanish and English? Consider the epigraph to Drown, the short story collection in which “Drown” appeared, by Cuban writer Gustavo Perez-Firmat: “The fact that I / am writing to you / in English / already falsifies what I / wanted to tell you.”
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