Assigbnment

Length- 5 PAGES

-DOUBLE-SPACED SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

1. Explore one aspect of Postmodernist social conflict or social criticism (for example family conflict, job conflict, social criticism of American capitalism or materialism) within Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman.

This essay needs to be at least 5 paragraphs (with a minimum of 5 sentences in each paragraph)

Story: "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

2. Define American Regionalism. How does it connect to American Modernism and coming of age stories? This essay needs to be at least 2 paragraphs (with at least 5 sentences in each paragraph)

Stories:

William Faulkner, "Barn Burning"

Langston Hughes, "Slave on the Block"

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B"

Richard Wright, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"

3. Choose 2 works from different Harlem Renaissance writers and compare and contrast their themes, settings, and characterization. This essay needs to be at least 3 paragraphs (with a minimum of 5 sentences for each paragraph)

Stories:

Zora Neal Hurston, "The Gilded Six-bits"

Jean Toomer, from Cane, "Blood-Burning Moon"

Ralph Ellison from Invisible Man, "Battle Royal"

Toni Morrison from Song of Solomon.