English Essay Prompts On Constructing Myths Part III: On Race
The House on Mango Street
Directions: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PROMPTS and write a 4-page fully developed essay that presents a clear response to the prompt and that follows the following guidelines:
1. Your essay needs to have a clear pattern of development. So, you will have a developed introduction and a clearly worded thesis statement as the last sentence of your introduction. In addition, your essay will have a specific topic sentence for each of your body paragraphs, and each topic sentence will be the first sentence of each body paragraph. Finally, your essay will have a clear conclusion.
2. Your essay needs to be grammatically correct. It should also have clear and varied sentence structure, and it should express your ideas clearly and effectively.
3. Your essay needs to highlight your critical thinking skills. It should present a compelling, well-organized analysis with plenty of SPECIFIC examples, illustrations, quotes from the novel, and formal research. You should also try to explore specific semiotic variants – social, political, economic, cultural, gender, religious, etc. – to display originality and critical thinking.
4. Finally, you need to use AT LEAST 4 strong, credible, SCHOLARLY (peer-reviewed) sources to support your argument. You need to cite these sources in the correct MLA format within your text, and you need to include a Works Cited page in the correct MLA format.
Prompts:
1. Write an essay in which you discuss the power of language in the novel. How does language, especially English, affect the domestic, social, and individual identity of a character, or some characters, in the novel? How does the power of language affect domestic, social, and individual identities in contemporary American culture? Your essay needs to highlight your critical thinking skills. It should present a compelling, well-organized analysis with plenty of SPECIFIC examples, illustrations, quotes from the novel, and formal research.
2. Write an essay in which you explore how gender and power are connected in the novel. What is the role of women in this novel? What is the role of men? Can a woman become beautiful and cruel, having both sexuality and autonomy in a patriarchal society? How do the concepts of gender and power displayed in the novel connect to contemporary American culture? Your essay needs to highlight your critical thinking skills. It should present a compelling, well-organized analysis with plenty of SPECIFIC examples, illustrations, quotes from the novel, and formal research.
3. Write an essay in which you discuss the connection between culture and social class. How do culture and social class affect individuals? How do culture and social class affect the community? How do culture and social class affect how individuals and cultural groups are seen by others? How do the concepts of culture and social class connect to contemporary American culture? Your essay needs to highlight your critical thinking skills. It should present a compelling, well-organized analysis with plenty of SPECIFIC examples, illustrations, quotes from the novel, and formal research.
4. Write an essay in which you discuss Esperanzas struggle to carve out her own identity and engage in the act of self-invention. How does the suffering and prejudice associated with her culture affect Esperanzas self-invention? How does Esperanzas gender affect her desire to be loved by men without getting trapped or abused? How does Esperanzas economic class affect the development of her talents to achieve independence and to control the development of her identity? How do Esperanzas struggles to carve out her own identity connect to contemporary American culture? Your essay needs to highlight your critical thinking skills. It should present a compelling, well-organized analysis with plenty of SPECIFIC examples, illustrations, quotes from the novel, and formal research.
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