WRITING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Due November 11. The Dark Child Write a short paper (more than 2 and less than 5 pages) comparing The Dark Child to another book that you have read in this course. (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Things Fall Apart, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass). Choose one of the topics listed below. Your paper should be an analysis that is held together by one, central argumentative thesis. The paper does not have to simply restate the topic; it just needs to argue some aspect of an idea related to it. Your paper should have the following characteristics. 1) It should be an analysis. In other words, it should relate parts of the work to a concept that describes all of the work. It should concentrate on just one main idea. 2) It should have unity and coherence. This means that every paragraph refers back to a central thesis and every sentence of each paragraph refers back to the topic of the paragraph. Your thesis should contain both a "topic" and a controlling idea -- an assertion about your topic that you plan to support with evidence. 3) It should have an introduction that presents the thesis and summarizes the direction of the argument and it should have a conclusion that places your thesis in perspective. 4) It should use examples from the text to support its argument. Please try to avoid shifting verb tenses by writing the paper in present tense. Although you may not decided to write this paper, you must choose at least one person in your group to write a paper on The Dark Child. On the day of the workshop, the person (or people) who chose to write this paper must bring one copy of it for each member of the group. Write about some aspect of one of the following topics: • Discuss and compare the different attitudes towards movement and or marginalization in The Dark Child and in another text that we have read. Use specific examples from the texts. • Discuss and compare the different attitudes towards civilization, tradition, religion and/ or culture in The Dark Child and in another text that we have read. Use specific examples from the text. The Dark Child [login to view URL] Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: [login to view URL] Things Fall Apart [login to view URL] The Life of Olaudah Equiano [login to view URL] The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. [login to view URL]