Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

The novel Disobedience describes the spiritual journey of several fictitious characters, with special attention to a rabbi’s daughter. Write a 4 page essay  reflecting upon the spiritual experiences and religious worldviews found in the novel Disobedience. 

(You could compare your own experience with one or more of the characters, talking about similarities or differences.) if you choose to do so it has to be from the POV of a muslim woman. 

Note: It is essential that your paper show that you have read or listened to the novel carefully and have engaged it.

Some suggestions:

You may structure this paper however you like, but it needs to have a clear introduction, “flow,” and conclusion. The following are some questions which you may wish to consider. It probably would not be good to tackle all of these. The paper should have a clear introduction, conclusion, and logical flow (not just “stream of consciousness”).


Suggestions:

• Are there certain “sacred texts,” events or religious rituals which have been significant turning

points for you? How have these shaped your worldview? Are there events or religious rituals

that you have found meaningful (or meaningless)?

• What are your current beliefs regarding matters related to religion, ultimate reality, or the divine? How

is your ethics and behavior shaped by this? Do you have an “image” or mental “picture” of God or your

“higher power”?


Citations: It is acceptable simply to provide the citation as in-text parenthetical citations (p. 16) or (16) or (Alderman, 16). For instance: As Ronit said, “I should have seen it coming” (102). For inset block quotes, do as follow. No quotation marks around inset block quotations unless the quotation marks are in the text itself. Put the parenthetical citation after the closing punctuation:

The more powerful a force, the more holy a place, the more truth there is in wisdom, the more these things should be private, deep, accessible only to those who have worked to attain them…. We should not rush to throw open doors, to allow light to shine on quiet places. For those who have seen the secret mysteries tell us not only of the beauty, but also of the pain. And certain things are better left unseen, and certain words unspoken. (72)