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assignment.docx*****THIS research ESSAY IS WORTH 40% OF MY GRADE SO IM COUNTING ON YOU *****
Write an essay that addresses one or two texts listed in the syllabus. You must use a minimum of five sources. (You may draw from the recommended reading for your sources.) Consider writing an essay about Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter. If you choose to expand upon either Essay One/Two, you may use up to two pages from your previously submitted material. These pages would count toward the length requirement of the research essay.
Note: Your essays should reflect in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond classroom discussions. The essay should be 10-12 pages long including the work cite.
Use these two in the final research
· The Night Counter by author, Alia Yunis
· Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber.
Other books you may use as a source, and/or you can use online Articles Minimum of 5 sources
· Laila Halaby, West of the Jordan (2003)
· Betty Shamieh, Roar (2005) and The Black Eyed & Architecture (2008)
· Alia Malek, The Home that was Our Country (2017)
· Ruth Awad, Set to Music a Wildfire (2017)
Can you redo it based on the recording you will figure it out after you listen to the recording in the bottom?
Working Title: Comparing Crescent and The Night Counter
Introduction:
Thesis statement: The stories of Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber and The Night Counter by Alia Yunis both share similar characteristics of Arab American identity and culture, such as the vulnerability from immigration, the wide variety of food, realistic story telling from characters about their experience, and their uses of Arabic language.
Body Paragraphs
Point A: Topic sentence: In Crescent, Janet and Han are both lonely and also in The Night Counter Fatima was also lonely when she moved to California.
1. Supporting evidence: “Their first kiss was under the water in the deceptive lights” (Abu-Jaber, p. 224).
2. Supporting evidence: “‘Back home, the house would be his,’ Scheherazade said. ‘As your only living son.’” (Yunis, p. 335).
Point B: Topic sentence: The two novels communicate the foods of the Arabic culture through detailed descriptions throughout the stories.
1. Supporting evidence: “Her mother said that a baklava-maker should have sensitive, supple hands, so she was in charge of opening and peeling the paper-thin layers of dough and placing them in a stack in the tray” (Abu-Jaber, p. 58).
2. Supporting evidence: “Fatima covered the completed kibbes with a white towel so that they would not dry out. Before the engagement dinner tomorrow with Tiffany from the Iranian Jew’s store, she would deep-fry the balls in corn oil” (Yunis, p. 142).
Point C: Topic sentence: The storytelling From Srine’s uncle, Abdulrahman Saladin in Crescent and the story listener, Scheherazade in The Night Counter both reveal the Arab American mythical, historical, and cultural forces.
1. Supporting evidence: “Ask anyone, Persians, Turks, even Lebanese and Egyptians- none of them want to be the Arab” (Abu-Jaber p.54).
2. Supporting evidence: “‘Times change, ya oukhti.’ Fatima sighed. ‘When I first came to this country. I couldn’t understand how the women-Millie and those big picture show stars -let men boss them around...’” (Yunis, p.121)
Point D: Topic sentence: Both stories involve the Arabic culture, like Hanif teaching an American woman about Arabic language in Crescent and Randy teaching her kids about the Arab culture and the proper etiquette.
1. Supporting evidence: “First she identified herself as the woman that Han had been tutoring” (Abu Jaber, p. 227).
2. Supporting evidence: “She was starving, and so she wolfed down the food, not inspecting the plastrine plates for caked-on leftovers, as Randy had taught her” (Yunis, p.167) p. 265
Conclusion
Topic sentence/summary of your main points: The two books are alike because they include Arab American culture through the language and food, and how the characters’ experience in America affects their Arab culture.
1. Closing remark: The two novels Crescent and The Night Counter make connections to Arab American culture through storytelling and isolation.
2. Closing remark: Food was played role in showing the different forms of Arab dishes in both novels through the descriptions.
Works Cited
Abu-Jab, Diana. (2003). Crescent. New York. NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Yunis, Alia. (2009). The Night Counter. New York. Shaye Areheart Books.
Recording (Office discussion)
