1. Identify the author and the literary work you are focusing on for your research essay. The short story I will use for my research paper is “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. 2. Please share the actual word-for-word thesis statement of your research essay in your post. In “ Salvation” a short story by Langston Hughes is about an innocent child who discovers information in his faith that affects his perspective on it. 3. Explain what specific kind of secondary source information you feel will support your thesis. The secondary source I will be using is “Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem” by Wallace D. Best. 4. Identify the BMCC databases you have explored to date and what the results have been. I found multiple articles and speeches
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Identify the author and literary work you are focusing on for your research essay, for my essay I will use Langston Hughes short story “Salvation”, the literary work i will be focusing on is the author use of irony flashbacks and imagery to help understand his story. Please share the verbatim thesis statement of your research essay in your post. In this story the author talks about religious expectations and failing to meet them because of misunderstanding his aunts wishes and peer pressure. “Langston feels he must wait for Jesus to come save him because of what his aunts told him and from the pressure of the church” The author autobiography will help me support my thesis on the story and will help me understand the literary elements inside the short story. Identify the BMCC databases you have explored to date and what the results have been. I used the BMCC database to find articles and stories to help my essay the results have been good.
For my research essay I’ll be using the story of “Araby” by James Joyce My thesis word for word is: “In this story, the author shows us the harshness of disillusionment through the main character and his experience. He lives in a fantasy and romanticizes every action of the girl he likes, which eventually leads to disillusionment” To support my thesis I haven’t found any article yet but I think I will be using a literary critique because it would be helpful to read another person’s point of view or interpretation of the story. I’ve been exploring the BMCC library and Gale in Context to find an article that would help me.
The author and literary work that I am focusing on for my research essay is Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson.” My thesis statement is: In “The Lesson,” Bambara uses the setting of a toy store in Manhattan to illustrate the economic and social inequality between the privileged and marginalized characters, highlighting the barriers to social mobility that exist for lower-class Black individuals in America and emphasizing the power of consumerism in perpetuating inequality and the myth of the American Dream. To support my thesis, I plan to use secondary sources that analyze the themes of economic and social inequality, racism, and consumerism in Bambara’s work. I am also interested in exploring the historical context of the story, particularly the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement on the experiences of lower-class Black individuals in America during the 1960s. I have explored the BMCC databases JSTOR and Project MUSE to date and have found several articles that analyze the themes of economic and social inequality in Bambara’s work. One article in particular, “Toni Cade Bambara’s Use of African American Vernacular English in “The Lesson”” by Valerie Babb, analyzes Bambara’s use of language in the story to convey the experiences of lower-class Black individuals. This article will be particularly useful in supporting my analysis of the language Bambara uses in “The Lesson” to highlight the stark contrast between the privileged and the marginalized characters.
