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These essays should be 2-3 pages and deeply explore your thinking about the reading. They are not summaries or plot description. Rather, I’d like you to begin your essay by posing questions about the themes of the reading. Then, you should point to ways that the text answers those questions. What questions does the text leave open? How did the reading challenge your own ideas about the themes presented? In what ways did the text surprise you, delight you, repulse you? What have you learned from this text? How did the questions you present here enable you to understand the literary value of the text?
Remember, reading literature can reveal truths and build empathy, but it’s not meant to be social science, and your reading of it should be based in the text and evidence, not real world examples, necessarily. Literature often works with cultural studies, so in what ways might the literature speak to a deeper
Culture of humanity?
BOOK is Fiona and Jane
Be specific with the examples that helped you develop your thinking.

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