ESSAY #1: INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
DUE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
AT 12:00 NOON EDT
ESSAY TOPIC: Innocence and Experience (pages 79-80)
ESSAY TITLE: ESSAY #1: INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
ESSAY CONSIDERATIONS:
The contrast between what we thought in our youth and what we have come to know, painfully, as adults stands as an emblem of the passage from innocence to experience. Yet all of us remain, to one degree or another innocent through life, since we never – except with death – stop learning from experience. Looked at in this way, experience is the ceaseless assault life makes on our innocence, moving us to a greater wisdom about ourselves and the world around us.
ESSAY QUESTION (choose from one of the following):
© Young Goodman Brown (“Young Goodman Brown”)
Write an essay in which you argue for or against the proposition that the “truth” Brown discovers during the night in the forest justifies his gloom and withdrawal.
© The Grandmother (“A Good Man is Hard to Find”)
Compare the contrast The Misfit and the grandmother. Do they come to seem more different or more alike over the course of the story? In what ways?
© Sammy (“A&P”)
In American culture what you “do” for work is an important part of your adult life and a major component of your identify. Discuss how Sammy rejected the expectations of his parents and Lengel and was able to quit his job despite his awareness of “how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.”
ESSAY VALUE: 100 points
ESSAY GUIDELINES: Be sure to follow the guidelines for preparing and submitting your essay. Essay guidelines are available at this link:
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