EvanCorsonLitEngagements

Finding connections in this essay for me was extremely tough. I was able to think of my first connection between The Pit and The Pendulum and Oscar Wao relatively easily, but after that, it took me what felt like forever to find connections. I kept going from story to story to try to find a similar theme and finally I did. It was very hard to figure out other connections because a lot of the literature we read is hard to analyze. Also, some of the literature we read were poems and for me connecting a poem to the story of Oscar Wao felt more difficult then connecting it to another story, even though I did go through many paragraph trials with this. I feel okay about my Essay, I did spend ALOT of time making connections then deleting them because I felt like I could find a stronger connection. I do think my essay does follow the prompt because each step of the way I had the prompt to make sure I was on topic. I feel good about this class. I have genuinely gotten better at analyzing lit...

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Essay #4 Idea Draft Connecting Sweat and A Raisin In the Sun In both stories a theme is African-Americans being marginalized by society. A Raisin In the Sun was set in the 1959 and sweat was set in 1926. There is thirty-three years difference between the time period, but African-Americans still had a lot of the same issues from 1926 to 1959. In a Raisin In the Sun, the Younger family is finally able to move out of their crammed apartment, but they can only afford a house in a white community because they are cheaper, which is one problem they had to face because of their race. Before they moved, they were approached multiple times by a white men sent by the community to buy the house from the family because they are not wanted there. They have to battle the diversity of being a different race and therefore being treated differently. Sweat, like many of Hurston's stories, focuses on Southern, working class African Americans. Another thing I noticed was fact that we never see whi...

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My issue I wrote about was stereotype threat to women. I found really good research on my topic for both popular and scholarly source which I was thankful for because sometimes finding scholarly sources that directly relate to your topic is difficult. Adding the play into my essay was a little difficult because I didn't remember exactly what they said in the play and so I had to watch the play again. Once I did bring my examples together, I thought it made the essay flow a lot better and take more meaning. I didn't have a hard time writing about stenotypes threat because I did find it interesting to write about so I made sure to do my research. I thought my topic was my mom successful part of this essay because I actually care about my topic, I found that quite a few topics I choose in essays just happen to be 'fighting for female rights' oriented. I think the most challenging thing for me was looking for play quotes and to find examples of the play because I couldn...

Evan Corson 4/3/2018 Peer Draft Raisin in the Sun Analysis One social issue I want to focus on throughout this book is stereotype threat against women. There are many sexist remarks when it comes to women that are belittling to their role in society. Stereotype threat is a situational predicament where people feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group. A strong example of this in The Raisin In the Sun is how Walter constantly shoots down the idea of Beneatha becoming a doctor and told her to take a more stereotypical role in society for women at the time. Stereotype threat is very important in this book because it walks hand and hand with the title ‘ The raisin in the sun’ . In Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem,” he discusses the idea of unfulfilled dreams and their plausible outcomes using symbolism and imagery. He initially describes a “deferred” dream as a sun-dried raisin, depicting the dream originally as a fresh gra...