ESSAY 500 words (lecture needed)

Extra Credit Assignment

For

Shadow on the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Read Shadow on the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and then write a reader response paper of about 500 words [use MLA format] that incorporates a discussion of one or more of the following topics:

· The extent to which shadows of the past and the secrets of the present affect the future

· The importance of the book’s setting of Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War

· The significance of the journey through the streets of Barcelona and through the streets of life

· Love and deception in a person’s life

· The significance of the book’s title

· How The Shadow of the Wind celebrates the act of reading and the importance of literature in real life