Reminder: 1 the book i need to read is ” born a crime” please make sure you have carefully read your memoir and the other text I provided and that you have fully considered the different viewpoints and evidence.
2 please noticed that you only can use the quotes from “born a crime” when discussing the other readings, they must be paraphrases or summaries.
3 do not use the outside sources. must following the essay prompt
4.Before getting start , thinking those questions 1.You will have to choose which character(s) you want to focus on(The character I choose is Trevor Noah ). Keep in mind that it’s better to focus on one and analyze this character deeply. But, if you feel the need, you may analyze more than one.
2.What is “success” to them?
3.Did this person succeed?
4.What were the obstacles that this character face throughout the memoir?
5.What concepts help you understand why the character was able to succeed
or not?
Essay 4 at a Glance
Essay 4 is your chance to use everything we have learned this semester to write an excellent essay. Here’s your chance to show the skills you have developed in carefully reading and understanding texts and making connections among the ideas in multiple texts to discuss the message your memoir makes about success and response to adversity. This will require that you continue to choose strong specific examples from the text and explain your analytical connections to readers.
Main Goals for Essay 4
Prompt for Essay 4
For your final essay assignment, you will be analyzing your memoir through the many ideas related to success we have read this semester. Your essay should focus on making a claim about the overall message of the memoir based on what we have learned about the different ways in which people are able to succeed, how people deal with external obstacles (i.e. family, race, gender issues), and how people respond to adversity in order to succeed.
In coming up with your essay’s focus, I encourage you to think about all that you’ve learned in the texts we’ve read this semester. Your essay must use three (3) of the following sources:
Remember to consider the grey areas and to think about the complexities in both your memoir and other texts, and in your essay, be sure to include:
Notes:
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