for Eng.Kelvin

read the provided sources in the attachment 

and then pick one of these 3 topics and write about it ( 4 pages essay ) on MLA FORMAT PLEASE! 

rough draft needed due friday morning 

final draft due sunday 

the topic are :

Topics:

1. Can we see Erdrich’s “The Shawl,” Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” and the film Smoke Signals as demonstrating the Native American “collective will to resist our own destruction”? Erdrich’s acceptance speech refers to ecological destruction, but can her claim concerning resisting destruction also apply to the lives of these fictional characters in the stories by Erdrich and Alexie? Draw support for your thesis from selected stories and Peterson’s analysis of Alexie’s work.
2. Nancy J. Peterson considers Gerald Vizenor’s term “survivance” in her analysis of the work of Sherman Alexie. She says that Vizenor’s term works against the stereotype that Native Americans are a “vanishing” people, as it  “acknowledges colonialism and trauma but… claims more than survival as an ending of the story” (76) (Italics added).  Vizenor explains that “’Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy, and victimry” (76). Evaluate Erdrich’s “The Shawl,” Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” and the film Smoke Signals: do they qualify as survivance stories, by providing a renunciation of dominance, tragedy, and victimry?
3. Explore the possibility of healing and restoration as it is articulated in Erdrich’s “The Shawl,” Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” and the film Smoke Signals.