Protagonist and Antagonist of A Raisin in the Sun
Research Essay over Drama or Poetry
Task:
Compose a 2-4 page essay in MLA format that directly responds to one of the topics. The essay should include your own analysis of literature and incorporate peer reviewed research and other appropriate sources to support your argument.
Essay Topics:
Choose one of the following options:
• Who is the protagonist and antagonist of A Raisin in the Sun?
• Hansberry raises many issues feminists of the time were concerned with, including marriage, women in the workplace, and abortion. Choose a character from the play, and form an argument about how he or she views these issues.
• Write an explication of a poem of your choice from the textbook; the poem should be no shorter than 14 lines and no longer than 35 lines. See linked instructions for writing a poetry explication on Blackboard.
Helpful Hints:
• As we’ve discussed, providing textual evidence to support your argument is often the difference between an A paper and a D paper.
• You are required to use a minimum of one peer reviewed article and one other source (such as a credible website) for this paper. Use GALILEO to locate peer reviewed articles.
• Use research and textual evidence to support your ideas, but don’t rely on them to be the bulk of the essay. If the final product is just lengthy quotes spliced together with a few sentences of your own analysis, your grade will suffer.
• Document your sources carefully. Even if you paraphrase information, you must credit the original source because you got the idea there. Documentation includes in-text citations and full citations on the works cited page. Use quotation marks and an in-text citation to indicate direct word-for-word quotes. Don’t forget to cite the primary text (the play or the poem itself) in the works cited.
Grading:
Introduction is interesting and appropriately familiarizes the reader with the topic.
Paper contains a clear, easily discernable thesis statement located at the end of the intro.
Body paragraphs support and further explain the thesis and use appropriate research to support the thesis.
Clear organization of body paragraphs. (one point per paragraph)
Sources are documented properly, including in-text citations and the works cited.
The paper is written in grammatically correct Standard English.
Paper adheres to MLA format, including the heading, header, appropriate margins, font, etc.
Conclusion effectively provides a sense of completeness and closure to the paper.
*Papers that do not meet the minimum length requirement of two full pages will lose at least a letter grade.
*no plagiarism automatic 0
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March 26, 2021
Literary Analysis
The African American family that the play centers on resides in Chicago in the 1950s. Even though they constantly work to see the day through, they continue to wish for the best. The family faces numerous challenges, most of which are caused by outside factors like racism and their surroundings because, during this year, racism is high (Library of Congress). Once their patriarch, Walter Sr., passed away, they suddenly got a $10,000 life insurance claim, marking the narrative's real beginning. How to use the money each member of the family has a different plan. With that brief introduction, we will explore the protagonist and antagonist of the novel in this essay and offer an alternative perspective to the plot summary.
Alternative Prospective
Accordingly, Walter Lee Younger serves as the story's protagonist. However, when examining the play, we can argue that the entire family may be viewed as the protagonist because they suffer the same persecution and adversity as Walter. The family has chosen to invest the funds in a sustainable business after receiving them because doing so will provide them with several chances and ensure that they have a reliable source of income (Hansberry & Michelle). The family's thoughts on utilizing the money they have received are highly divergent, even if, at first, they all had different ambitions, such as utilizing it for schooling and purchasing a home in the white neighborhood. Nevertheless, in the end, Walter's ideas won out. The central tension in the narrative is around Walter's choice to open a booze store. Both external and internal conflicts arise in this section of the narrative.
When the plan is being implemented, he trusts two of his friends for the money to invest in the liquor store. ...