Option #1: The borders of time in The Break by Katherena Vermette. In part four of the book the character Rain says, “A storyteller once told me our languages never had a sense of time, that past and present and future happened all at once” (244). Discuss how this idea of time is explored in The Break by Katherena Vermette, and specifically how it relates to the cycles of violence and trauma portrayed in the book.
Option #2: Compare and contrast how form interacts with meaning in Francisco Cantu’s The Line Becomes a River and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Form in a literary text refers to how content is arranged or presented: it is the structure, shape, and/or style in which a story is told. Compare and contrast how authors Cantu and Cisneros use form to create and heighten the meaning of their respective texts.
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