Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering;
What is Pynchon saying about paranoia?
Pynchon grasped the deep psychological terror that comes with seeing conspiracy everwhere, or in that conspiracy exists everwhere?
What is the goal of surviving the conspiracy?
Self preservation? procreation?
Essay Two requirements – Crying of Lot 49
You MUST use a minimum of 4 / FOUR academic sources
You must cite each source a minimum of 2 times
You should not quote from your source articles. You need to paraphrase these sources.
You may quote from the Crying. The novel does not count as a source.
Your essay must be uploaded the essay onto Blackboard as a WORD doc (docx, doc).
I can not make comments on a pdf. I will not send comments on pdf’s.
You need to put your name and class and subject on the file name. Should be something like: Barnehama, Eng 2-27, Crying Essay
Your essay MUST include a title
Avoid quotes from sources – other than the novel.
two of the sources:
http://lithub.com/oedipa-maas-our-guide-to-contemporary-paranoia/
and http://www.academia.edu/6275270/Oedipa_Crisis_Paranoia_and_Prohibition_in_the_Crying_of_Lot_49