Short Answers (5-8 sentences)
1. What is the role/function of the narrator in The God of Small Things? What do they add to the text in terms of their point of view or perspective? You may want to consider how the narrator changes our reading as you’re working through your answer.
2. As readers in The Wasted Vigil, we have access to a lot more information than many of the characters do about one another. How does this more informed perspective affect our understanding or interpretation of the text’s larger emphasis on beauty in the midst of tragedy? Or offer hopeful possibilities in the midst of cycles of war and violence?
Detailed Essay:
You will not need to provide textual summary, though you should make argumentative claims about broader trends in the text that you will then support with specific textual evidence.
Make sure you write in complete sentences and follow the essay and paragraph structure we discussed: a thesis statement that clearly states your argument; for the body paragraphs you should have a main idea (claim), evidence, analysis, and a link to the next paragraph as well as back to your thesis.
1.Roy and Aslam meditate at length on the power and potential of storytelling, both within the novels themselves and gesturing to the world at large. Analyze the role of storytelling in these two novels. Consider the following questions in your response: How do the two novels differ in what they define as story or storytelling? What are some significant differences and similarities between the messages these novels have for their readers? Your essay should use textual evidence to define storytelling, explain its significance in the individual text, and articulate the divergences and their importance.
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