5 books

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:

Read the required 5 books, and write on the theme of "awakenings."  What awakenings are the characters or writers undergoing?  What awakenings are you undergoing?

All essays must meet the following length requirements:

4 pages, typed double-spaced

All essays are due the second week of school.

Awakenings

The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
Dead Man Walking, Helen Prejean
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
We All Fall Down, Robert Cormier
Annie On My Mind, Nancy Garden
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Flyy Girl, Omar Tyree
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brown Girl, Brownstones, Paule Marshall
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Brendt
All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodard
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, M. Kundera
Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton, J.P. Donleavy
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J.P. Donleavy
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Ray
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy O'Toole
Quinn's Book, William Kennedy
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Siddartha, Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Souls and Bodies, David Lodge
The Way Men Act, Elinor Lipman
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Window, Michael Dorris
The Letter of Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
Black Boy, Richard Wright
An American Childhood, Anne Dillard