1000 Word Essay on Literature Topic

Paper #2 American Lit to 1865, 1,000 words, typed, double-spaced, your own words, unless you are using a short quote (less than four typed lines )-then you put quotations around words that are not your own. Do not use ANY long quotes in this paper at all. Be sure to use a signal phrase every time you introduce information that you found from a source-any source.

Use specific references from the text, use signal phrases, make sure the names in your signal phrases match the names in your works cited page. Review MLA style for correct format for an academic paper. Don't tell me, "I didn't know" and expect that to be an excuse for doing this paper incorrectly

If you don't follow these instructions, you will get an F or a D on your paper, no matter how good it is. If I find that your paper is plagiarized, you will fail the course, no exceptions.

1. Analyze how the concept of the self is treated in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin. How important, for instance, is integrity, individualism, and self-improvement in the writings of these men? Use specific references from the text, use signal phrases, make sure the names in your signal phrases match the names in your works cited page. Review MLA style for correct format for an academic paper.

2. How is a slave's manhood and womanhood impacted upon by their being identified as a slave-Use the works of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. In other words, what did it mean sociologically and psychologically to be a "man" or to be a "woman" in the nineteenth century before the Civil War? How do these two writers demonstrate the difficulty they faced in trying to maintain their pride of self as a man and a woman while being owned by another human being?

3. Analyze the life-changing journey taken by Hawthorne's characters in "Young Goodman Brown" and The Scarlet Letter. Which journey resulted in something positive, and which in something negative-or is the journey more complicated than that?