Below is going to be the official prompt the teacher gave us. Please choose a book that you have access to so that you can use accurate quotes. Also our class is on US intellectual history since 1877 so please make sure it is relevant to that time frame and connect the essay to the historical context of the time the book was written. Please use 14 font and make sure it passes turnitin.com.
WRITE A SHORT ESSAY IN WHICH YOU REFLECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NOVEL YOU READ AND THE LARGER INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL SETTING IN WHICH IT WAS EMERGED(US HISTORY SINCE 1877). DO NOT WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLOT UNLESS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO THE QUESTION OF CONTEXT. WHY DO YOU THINK I PUT THIS BOOK ON THE LIST? AND FINALLY WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE BOOK?
Base your essay on one of these novels:
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Phillip Roth, The Human Stain or American Pastoral
Willa Cather, Oh Pioneers or My
Antonia
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Jonathan Lethem, Fortress of Solitude
Don De Lillo, White Noise
Colin Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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