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Paper instructions:

Writing About a Lengthy Work
Audience:  Formal
Person:    Third
Sources:  at least five

Assignment:  Your goal is to write a short paper, 5-8 pages in length, over one of the literary works on your syllabus:  The Color Purple, or A Streetcar Named Desire.  I want you to clear your subject with me.  I will accept variations on these ideas or ideas you come up with on your own as long as you clear them with me.  

Topics to consider in The Color Purple:
The idea of formal and informal marriage
The structure of the African American family
Women’s rights within the culture
Women’s rights in America
Women as objects  
Cultural elements within the novel
An examination of a theme of your choice
A character analysis of your choice
How Speilberg’s use of mise en scene shapes the story
Speilberg’s work as a director in adapting Walker’s epistolary to screen
Epistolary prose and its effect on the reader
Exploration of a theme as explored by Walker and as expressed by Speilberg