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Please complete all three steps in your response this week:
Identify the author and the literary work you are focusing on for your research essay.
Please share the actual thesis statement of your research essay in your post.
Explain what specific kind of secondary source information you feel will support your thesis.
Identify the BMCC databases you have explored to date and what the results have been.
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The author is Langston Hughes and the Literary work I am focusing on is the story Salvation. My thesis for this essay is decisions are often made due to pressure under circumstances and given a choice to make decisions that can potentially change how the world is viewed after. The specific kinds of secondary resources that I centered around was Bibliographies because it discussed his decisions that he chose to make in life and how it affected how he then viewed the world after. I feel that this resource will support my thesis because it’s directly coming from Langston Hughes on how it was his choices and how he decided to react on them. The database that I went through was the bmcc library then directing it to Gale so I was able to see his Bibliographies, News, Magazines, and much more. The results have been a good method and a success because it helps makes my points stronger.
Hi Samijah:) I hope all is going great with you. I have to say I really like your thesis. I think it’s a perfect thesis for that story because Langston Hughes was pressured horrifically in that moment to acknowledge the existence of a god that he’s never met, a god that’s never saved him before. The peer pressure in that moment made him lie to save himself the embarrassment and anxiety of being the only one who didn’t see what everyone was so sensitive about. Maybe all those other people who said they’d seen god were lying because they were peer pressured as well.
Hey samijahrodriguez, this story is very good. I chose the same story as you to write the essay. Langston struggled with his own emotions because the decision he made under great pressure to make the current decision. He was influenced by the choices made by the people around him and the environment, and then he became a person who lost his faith.
Samijah, your reasons for choosing a biographical secondary source are good. However, you don’t have a workable thesis statement. Thesis statements for ENG 201 essays cannot be broad generalizations; they must relate specifically to the text and must be based on a literary element. Literary elements might include theme, setting, narrative voice, character analysis, and other such things. I am glad you posted this because others are making the same mistake. In ENG 201 we are not writing about psychology or sociology. We are laser focused on the story.
Hey Samijah . I really like how you wrote your thesis and how clear the information you are trying to portray is. We both have the same story but ofcourse you’ve written better. I feel same what you think and looking forward to seeing more from you
Hi everyone:) my research essay and thesis will be based on “Araby” by James Joyce. The thesis of my thesis of my research essay is “The theme in “Araby” is seen in how the protagonist, who lives in a dull, lifeless world uses delusion and fantasies to escape from a depressing reality.” In my quest to find a reliable secondary source I hope to find pretty much anything but an article that relates and talks about a main idea like my own would be ideal. I found a really good article so far which talks about “Araby” in a way that is very similar to my own, it talks about the narrators’ desires as well as the poetic language that is used in the story to help create that feeling of unrealistic love and clouded judgement. I used the “Gale” database, and I found a really nice article titled “Blind streets and seeing houses: Araby’s dim glass revisited” I think that this will inevitably be the secondary source that I use. The article touches on the points that I am trying to make, and I think it’ll be a great accessory to my essay. Unfortunately, it seems to be the only accessory to my research essay which is sad, but I am still very hopeful. Wish me luck, and good luck with yours too!
Hello Giovanni. Hope you are doing well with the research. I am also working on the same story. I really like the components of this short story. I am focusing my thesis on the usage of imagery of light and dark in connection to the loneliness the boy feels. I couldn’t find much secondary source that relates to what I want to talk about. I just found one that came the closest. I would like to take a look into the source you have mentioned. I hope you don’t mind. Best of luck with the essay and the research summary.
Thin and Giovanni, yes, do share sources! You can all help each other.
Giovanni, you have a very good thesis statement, and you are absolutely looking in the right direction with the source you mention. Remember that you don’t have to discuss an entire literary critique. Sometimes you can just focus on part of a literary article. For example, there are overviews of “Araby” that discuss nationalism, religion, and relationships between the sexes. Only one of these themes might be relevant to a given essay; so the student would focus in on that section of the literary critique.
Hello Giovanni, your thesis statement is great . I hope you find an article that will fit your thesis statement. Just like you I choose “Araby” as well but based my essay on a young boy coming into a realization. I think the thesis make so much sense with the story because the young boy tries to escape this dark place with his fantasies of Mangan’s sister. Just like you I am also finding it challenging to find articles to help connect to my thesis but good luck with your research paper.
Hello Giovanni
Hope you are doing good. This is a great story and I really like your thesis “who lives in a dull, lifeless world uses delusion and fantasies to escape from a depressing reality” really good line, I’m not working on this story but I’m using the same database for now and I have seem some overview that has a lot so I think this can help you
My research essay is from story “Salvation” written by Langston Hughes. The argument given by this story is not to be influenced by people or things around you when making a decision. When you are under pressure, you have to think clearly about your own decisions. Langston is a good example. His heart is not firm enough. The moment Westley lied, he hesitated, and he didn’t want to delay the time of the people in the church, so he lied about being saved. Langston clearly struggles with many different emotions. In the beginning, he’s happy and excited at the idea of seeing Jesus. But at the end, he lies and can’t bear to tell his aunt the truth about how Jesus didn’t come to him. The narrator changes from an innocent boy to a person who has lost his faith. I think this resource will support my thesis because it is full of emotion of the narrator. The database I use is the BMCC library, there are many interesting and related articles, can help us to write essay.
Shihao, I want everyone to paste their actual thesis statement into the discussion. I know you have a good thesis, but this post leads readers to think you are writing about a generalization about how pressure affects decision making.
Hello Shihao, I am actually working on the same story and I think it’s very interesting in which you stated his heart is not firm enough which in fact is true he still have some growing to do. He’s just a child but his characteristic is pure and good. He’s trusting, patient, hopeful, caring, and so on but he happens to make a poor decision. Within that poor decision guilt it then created. I like where you are heading though with your ideas.
The literacy work I will be working on for my research essay is “salvation” by Langston Hughes. The thesis for my essay explores the themes of social expectations and peer pressure from the point of view of a young boy who is coming of age. I explored and used the BMCC library Gale Literacy Sources database; I am currently searching through the many articles, critiques, biographies and more regarding Langston Hughes. I will mainly be using the BMCC database to find a biography or critique because I believe these will best support my thesis since both will be addressing Langston Hughes’ life experiences.
Shadai, a quick note—it’s “literary work,” not “literacy work.” I want everyone to paste their actual thesis statement into the post. It sounds like you are working hard to find some relevant secondary sources.
Hello Shadai, I am actually working on the same story and in fact it is such a good story because the meaning behind it is basically choices that is made it doesn’t necessarily define him as a character but he just made a wrong decision. Resources that you should look into as a suggestion would be biographies on him and experiences he went through because it shows decisions he made. It also shoes if it was good or bad decisions. That’s just a suggestion. Keep up the good work.
Hi, Shadai
I like how you really worked hard when searching for a secondary source using the bmcc database. you mentioned how you will use the databases to find a biography. we both are writing about the same story and it’s always good to see how people interpret the story and create their own thesis just like you did.
Among all options, I had decided to focus on “The Handsomest Drowned Man,” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, because I particularly enjoyed this reading. The thesis of my research essay is about the fusion of real and magical elements in the narrative, and I decided to analyze the narrative. And to support my analysis, I will need to incorporate a reliable literary critique to the context because it will add credibility to my argument.
Even though the author had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, I have found only one article on the EBSCO database. I was surprised because I was expecting more. On the other hand, the Gael Literature Resource Center has so many options that I am still going through all the data available. I am convinced that I will find what I am looking for among the material I am revising. I hope you do not get overwhelmed by the amount of material you need to read and achieve your set goal on the essay.
Deanne, I want students to paste their actual thesis statements into the post so we can all learn more about what makes a viable thesis statement. I have clarified the wording of the directions to avoid misunderstanding. It sounds like you are working hard to locate an article. It’s interesting that sometimes it’s hard to find information about a very famous person. Have you tried the Literature Resource Center database? It’s the one I like best.
Hello everyone. I will be focusing my research paper on the short story “Araby” by James Joyce. I will be talking about the usage of light and dark as literary devices in the story. My thesis is “Using light and dark as imagery devices, James Joyce brings the reader into the minds of a young child, and his reactions to growing up and facing the harsh truth.” I would like my secondary source to be something that is closely related to my thesis. Something that has to do with the imagery of the essay “Araby.” As I was looking through BMCC library database, I have found one source that is quite close to what I am looking for in Publicly Available Content Database. It is an article by Charles Ko. It is called “A Critical Essay to the Selected Text- “Araby” What Makes the Protagonist in “Araby” a Lonely Person? Has He Gained Anything from His Journey?” In the article, the writer discussed various themes in “Araby.” I am not sure if I will use this source yet. But I really do like the source since the writer talks about the connection between the darkness mentioned in the story “Araby” with the loneliness the protagonist feels.
Thin, thank you for pasting your thesis statement here. It is excellent, and it helps others to see examples of strong thesis statements. You are looking in the right places. The article you mention sounds like it will support a discussion of the darkness prevalent in the boy’s life. Part of that darkness is his loneliness and isolation.
Hi thin you are focusing on a very universal aspect of “Araby”. When a boy passes the genre of childhood to young boy than he has to face many harsh realities and changes.
Giavoni also chooses “Araby” for her research purpose. She applied the term escapism. He escapes from bitter realities of life and likes to live in fantasies. But my point of contrary t them because my research work emphasizes on maturity, realization and rationality. It is also a major theme of Joyc’s writings.
Hi everyone ! My research essay is based around “Araby” by James Joyce. I chose to write a thesis to play off themes of light and dark desolated in imagery, and what they represent in the story. My thesis is “Throughout the story, imagery is used to show the contrast of light and dark to highlight themes of dreams versus reality and the loss of innocence. The most distinctive element of this story is the strong use of imagery.” I hope that my secondary source has a relation to the intense imagery used in this story. I have explored the BMCC library and have yet to find an article to best suit my thesis. But I found an article by Harry stone called “ araby and writings of James Joyce to be a good insight on the loss of Innocence aspect in my thesis. I’m still looking, but hope to find more suited for my thesis.
The literary work that I have decided to work on is “The Handsomest Drowned Man”, which is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The thesis of my research essay is the goodness of someone has the ability to transform the perception of peoples thinking and future. The specific kind of secondary source information that I am looking for is a biography of the author , Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The BMCC database that I have explored to help me find the information I need is Gale.
Alexsander, I want everyone to paste their actual thesis statement into the post. As I recall, you have a good thesis statement. However, from what you’ve written here, people might think that your thesis is a generalization, which is not even true. The drowned man is not good. He is not anything. He is dead. It is the villagers that bring him to life by creating a myth about him, which they then try to live up to. Please post your actual thesis statement.
The author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Literary work I am focusing on is the story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World.” My thesis for this essay is: The presence of a truly great person has the power to inspire others to be better, to make them want to be extraordinary and creative. The specific kinds of secondary resources that I centered around was the Biography of the author because there we noticed how and where his children were and how that influenced them to make their stories, especially “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World”. I feel that this resource will support my thesis because it’s possible that I can connect his reality or experience with this and so my points would be stronger.
I think using Gabriel’s influence of his own children to that of the influence of the stranger upon the community in “The Most Handsomest Drowned Man” is a great connection. I chose the story “Salvation,” by Langston Hughes, and I was researching in the database, I found that there were many parallels between his life and the characters in his stories/pieces. It is interesting how he seemed to use his writing to speak for itself, and allowed his audience to interpret things about him from his work.
My essay will center around “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My thesis for the following essay plays with the topic of imagery and how people are influenced by what they see. My secondary source of information that will help me with the essay is an analysis of the story that also discusses Gabriel’s youth as his grandmother also told him many stories that influenced how he writes today.
Hello Adonys
I’m working in the same story, I really love you thesis about imagery and how the villagers let carried for what they see. For my source I’m looking in the database “Gale” and there are some overview that has a lot to say so it may help you.
My research essay will be about the story of “Araby” by James Joyce.The thesis statement I have is how the young boy comes to a realization that the girl he is obsessed with is just a fantasy and can not change the darkness in his life. The kind of secondary source I want to base my thesis around an article that has a kid in a dark neighborhood and tries to find hope in someone or something. This would help me to connect the secondary source to my thesis because in “Araby” the young boy is stuck in a dark place where there is no where for him to find hope until he meets this girl. This is why this type of secondary article will help so I can be able to show how many kids come into realization in different times. Some realize there isn’t hope early on and some realize it until the end.
My research paper focuses on the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, with the thesis being: “The irony in ‘Salvation’ sparks a change in the narrator that creates a rift between him and his church, his God, and thus him and himself.”
The secondary source I found comes from the BMCC Gale Literature: Literature Criticism database, and is from a volume of the Langston Hughes Review. This excerpt talks about the questions Langston had throughout his life regarding both religion and his own sexuality, and how he used his writing as an outlet to discover new ideas about both subjects.
I read through quite a few database entries before finding this one, including a few from the Gale Literature; Biography section, however I wasn’t finding as much about Langston’s religious perspectives as I wanted, so I switched to the literary criticisms. I think this is because, as I was reading, Langston was never straightforward about his beliefs or orientation, and used his writing to convey his messages and feelings.
Hi Anna, I am also writing my research essay on “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. “The irony in ‘Salvation’ sparks a change in the narrator that creates a rift between him and his church, his God, and thus him and himself.” is a well written and great thesis statement. I think you chose a great secondary source that really focuses and supports your thesis statement. When searching through the databases I also struggled to find what I was looking for. I am planning on using a biography or critique because I believe these will best support my thesis since both will be addressing Langston Hughes’ life experiences.
I Agree with you in story ‘Salvation’ the situation turns to irony because the boy was expecting the Jesus and things doesn’t goes right like the boy was thinking so rift was created between the boy and his church. He has to loose his faith to the god and he decide to act like he was revive. I hope database was helpful to your essay.
My research essay will be based on the story entitled “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” my thesis is how the villagers created a whole story about this drowned man, letting themselves be carried away by what their eyes see, the villagers underwent many changes and emotions with the arrival of this man to the village. In my long search I have been able to find great articles that talk about everything that happened in this story but I feel that none of them adheres to my thesis as I wanted, so I keep looking; So far I have used the database called “Gale literature” I hope to find an article that matches my thesis that way I will be able to have breakfast, I will keep looking and if necessary I will use another database to make my essay stronger.
Hi Ivanna. “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” was one of my favorite reads since we started this class, hope your essay is going well. I think the ideas presented in your thesis is great and lots to explore. Best of luck with your research paper.
Hi, Ivanna. We do research on the same story. I found my secondary recourse on GALE literature as well. There are not too many recourses relate to my thesis. Luckily, I found one on GALE literature that perfect fit my essay. I hope you can find the best secondary recourse to fit your essay, too.
Hello everyone, I had decided to make my research work on “Araby”.
“Araby” is a short story that has written by James Joyce. He is an Irish novelist. My research work describes the romantic journey of a young boy, who lives in the blind street of Ireland. He thinks that love is very idealistic and sensuous. He likes day dreaming of his beloved. But with the passage of time, he comes to realization that world is quiet beyond to his romantic idealization. The Araby bazar comes him to real and mature aspects of life. So in order to complete my research work, I decided to make a journal of zunaiyat, A, Ahmmaed as a secondary source “From innocence to experience” to support my research arguments. In the journal writer narrated romantic idealization of a young boy but the Araby bazar leads him toward maturity and rationality. The young boy falls in love in the very first sight going to the “Araby” bazar and bring gift for his beloved makes his sole aim. But in the “Araby” he has to face many bitter experiences than he thinks that love’s idealization is vice-versa to its real experience.
The literary work my research paper will be on is “The Lesson” by Cade Bambara. My thesis statement is “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara investigates themes of economic and racial inequity through the experience of African American adolescents discovering the true value of the dollar for the first time.” I hope to find secondary sources relating to how racism is at play regarding the economic inequity and perhaps some history to go along with it. So far from the BMCC database, you shared a great article called Critical Essay on “The Lesson.” This was very helpful both in regards to my understanding of the story as well as helping me put together my essay. Particularly the breakdown of all the characters as that was a big part of what made “The Lesson” great in my opinion. I hope to find a secondary source that’s as insightful and extensive as the one you provided.
Hello Charran,
I see that we both chose to work on the same text. The angle you chose is interesting. I find this short story highly didactic and powerful. Coming-of-age stories are an excellent tool for conveying a message in an emotionally impactful way. Despite not being African-American, coming from a different country, and being from another generation, I could easily relate to what Sylvia was going through. I didn’t find that article you mentioned before. I will give it a read. Thank you for this, and good luck with your essay!
For this essay, I have dedicated my efforts to Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” published in 1972 in the compilation book “Gorilla, My Love.” The story of a couple of young African-American girls acquiring class consciousness thanks to the actions of a new member of their community, the college-educated Miss Moore, appealed to me. I have chosen to explore the thesis that “it is Miss Moore’s being and her actions, more so than her words, that act as a catalyst that awakens class consciousness in Sylvia and Sugar.” So far, I have explored the “Biography in Context” database. Most biographies I’ve read had nothing directly relevant to my thesis. A couple stood out. Michael Timko’s “Toni Cade Bambara: Artist as Tutor” explored the text directly, and some elements could be used as a secondary source. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory’s “Toni Cade Bambara” touched on Bambara’s influences as a youth, not only her mother but also the “Garveyites, Father Diviners, Rastafarians, Muslims, Pan-Africanists, and communists” from “New York street corners.” The “Toni Cade Bambara” chapter of Gale’s “Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 10” also evokes Bambara’s involvement in feminist, black liberation, and communist movements, as well as her role as a teacher of lower-class children. Therefore, Miss Moore can be read as both a composite portrait of the people that led to her own class consciousness and arguably as part of a self-portrait (the other two parts being Sugar and Sylvia). I now think this could have been a fascinating thesis to explore, but these secondary sources still relate to my original thesis. I might keep exploring other secondary sources, but I feel like these biographies are perfectly usable for the purposes of my essay.
Hello Anastasia, thank you for your post. “The Lesson” by Bambara was one of the most impressive stories that I have read in this class, I was also thinking of choosing this as the primary source for my essay. Your thesis statement is extremely interesting to me. I liked the fact that you specified the importance of Miss Moore’s actions and how they have more value than what she says. Miss Moore definitely plays one of the most important roles in the story and we can say that she triggers so many emotions in Sylvia that readers can predict the beginning of an era in which Sylvia stands up for herself and conquers the injustice. I think you chose very interesting topic for your essay.
Hello, The literary work I will be working on is the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. The thesis of my essay is how he uses literary devices like characterization and settings to show how his past experiences shaped the person he is today. I’m looking to find a secondary source where another person has had a similar experience where his faith was tested and was able to overcome it in the end. I have explored the Literature resource center and am looking through the gale literary index for any additional resources to help me in finding a secondary source information.
Hello everyone, in my essay I will be focusing on “Araby” by James Joyce. The reason I chose this literature is that the story is more meaningful than it may seem at first. In the story, author keeps referring to lights and shadows as if they are characters too. Therefore, I think that it is worthy to discuss the meaning behind such darkness and brightness that we see throughout the narrative. My thesis statement focuses on this specific detail: The alteration between brightness and darkness demonstrates the battle between narrator’s fantasy and the harshness of reality. My intention was to look for the secondary source that would focus on the relationship between imagination and reality that we see in the story. I chose to search for literary article rather than biographical. Using “Gale Literature,” I found an article “Joyce’s Araby and Imaginative Freedom” by Susan Rosowski that discusses the tension between psychological and factual realities. Rosowski is not describing Joyce’s references to the lights and shadows, but she talks about the battle between fantasy and reality, therefore, I will fulfill the story by using the primary source.
The literary work that I choose is The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and the author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The thesis statement of essay is that this haunting story mixes fantasy and reality in a literary style known as magical realism. However, there are not too many articles relate my thesis. As I was looking through BMCC library database, I found one source that is close to my thesis. I found it on GALE literature and the title is overview of “The Handsomest drowned man. It is an essay written by Dean Rader. In the essay, the author also compares another story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez-A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Both short stories utilize magical realism.
Hello Deli wu!
I also find the use of magic realism fascinating in this story, and almost used it for my thesis as well. I would like to hear more of your take on the prominence of using magic realism in the story in order to obtain meaning /message from it. I think that would help to make a stronger thesis and help make your research process more specific and less general. Best of luck for your research!
The literary work I am focusing on is ‘Salvation’ by Langston Hughes. This essay is about a kid who is peer pressured into lying. When he was a kid he was taken to the church to see Jesus and light but after hours of praying he never saw the light which made him lie just to satisfy others and not look evil. But this wrong decision took a bad toll on him and turned him into a liar. Irony, is he was taken to accept truth but ended up lying. Often kids are put into situations where they feel like they have no other option but lie just to avoid social embarrassment. I am using BMCC Gale’s database for more information and I believe they variety of resources and information.
Topic of my essay is “Salvation Story of Innocent Boy” In the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, the innocent twelve-year-old protagonist becomes a victim of his community’s religious beliefs. At the beginning of the story, he believes in God with his whole heart. He goes to a church revival meeting to be “saved.” However, Jesus does not come to him as he hoped. So the boy acts as if he has been saved when he hasn’t. He does this only to be accepted by people in the church. This story presents a powerful example of irony. The boy is expecting to see Jesus, but in the end, he loses his faith altogether. I feel To make this as my thesis statement because it helps reader to actually catch up the main theme of the story. And understand the story easily with out reading the story because this moment is the most important part of the story so this is also pretty interesting part to select. I was convince to make this as an thesis statement because reader will never regret after reading my essay. Because this essay is based on educational purpose where the society pressure makes us to take the decision which can lead us to a problem . And Bmcc library data base was so much helpful for me where I get chance to get many ideas and use that to my essay.
The literary work for my essay will be on Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson.” Toni Cade Bambara explores issues of cultural and racial injustice, as well as the first hand experience of African American youths discovering the true value of money. My thesis for this paper is boosting adolescent knowledge of what life has to offer can be quite beneficial. I’m still seeking to find secondary materials that highlight how race contributes to financial inequity and how teaching adolescents the real meaning of life can change the way they think. While exploring the BMCC databases it was quite beneficial, both in terms of my knowledge of the story and starting my essay.
The author of the literary I am working on is James Joyce and the literary work that i am working on is the story Araby. My thesis for this essay is in “ Araby” how the narrator Is Lonely and tries multiple times to escape that situation and still in end basically goes back to square one when it comes to his life. The actual thesis statement I have wrote for this piece was “ When it comes to the story “Araby” by Joyce James there are many elements that help with the development of this character growth which I find important and most distinctive is loneliness. The story “ Araby” is about young boy living in North Richmond Street in Dublin,Ireland where the authors live a life which is it’s quite, lonely, boring and isolated of from others and wants to escape his reality.“ A good secondary source would be to find an article or a written piece which can support my thesis and also credible with hard facts that support what I am saying to be true.
The author of the literary I am working on is James Joyce and the literary work that i am working on is the story Araby. My thesis for this essay is in “ Araby” how the narrator Is Lonely and tries multiple times to escape that situation and still in end basically goes back to square one when it comes to his life. The actual thesis statement I have wrote for this piece was “ When it comes to the story “Araby” by Joyce James there are many elements that help with the development of this character growth which I find important and most distinctive is loneliness. The story “ Araby” is about young boy living in North Richmond Street in Dublin,Ireland where the authors live a life which is it’s quite, lonely, boring and isolated of from others and wants to escape his reality.“ A good secondary source would be to find an article or a written piece which can support my thesis and also credible with hard facts that support what I am saying to be true. Using the Bmcc database I’ve learned it’s very broad regarding research and you have to be specific with clear words to help shorten the search and I’m still looking for that secondary source but know it won’t take long to find it.
For my paper, I will be focusing on the works of Langston Hughes. His short story “Salvation”. My thesis for this paper is the following: “In “Salvation” Hughes presents himself as a young boy caught in between losing faith and coming of age to establish the theme that you cannot believe everything that you hear.” To back up this thesis I will be using a detailed biography giving a recap of Langton’s life. Using the Gale databases I was able to find a lot more points of view regarding the subject, I feel that I have a lot of resources available to me.
Hi, Mathew
I am too writing about the story of salvation, I like how you said that your thesis will consist of a detailed biography of Langton’s life. It’s different from my thesis because I am writing about literary devices in the story that made Langston the person he is today. We both have in common when it comes to using gale databases to find a secondary source because of the long variety of resources available.
My essay is focused on Langstone Hughes’ “Salvation, and my thesis is: “The most important and distinctive element of “Salvation” is the language used by and with regards to the adults around the boy; throughout the story, the boy, as his faith in Jesus falters, portrays an ever growing distrust for the adults, who, on the other hand, are written in a way which makes them seem almost crazy and hysterical with regards to their stance on religion.”
I think that bibliographies from the BMCC Library could be very useful in shining extra light on this story, as its a first hand account by the author. Perhaps there is something relevant and important I could learn from writing about the authors life, whether it be second hand accounts, or more first hand accounts.
Author and Title: “Salvation” by Langston Hughes.
Thesis Statement: “A single moment in time changes the trajectory of his life. His perception has changed and his religious beliefs are lost.”
I am looking through BMCC’S literary database in search of other literature, poetry, and other writings of Langston Hughes which led me to an article that discusses the emotional pull of his writing.
“Langston Hughes – Our Poet Supreme
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