Learning Goal: I’m working on a humanities writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
This short paper should be about 750 words in length, double-spaced, and well organized and edited. Like all collegiate writing, it must contain quotes and direct references to demonstrate you have read and thought about the works from this class that you use to discuss your topic. The point here is to show you have read closely and thought about the course content you have selected to write about. Thus you must use direct references from our reading to illustrate your ideas. Cite sources using APA and edit mercilessly before uploading your work. I will be looking for your thesis or main idea statement in the opening paragraph. This statement should provide a focus for you as writer and for your reader. Note the texts you will use in your essay in the opening paragraph as well.
1: Many readers of O Pioneers! resent the heck out of the two elder brothers, Lou and Oskar, for the way that they resent their sister, Alexandria. Can you, fitting into the shoes of these men and their time and place in history, write a defense of their resentment? What were they feeling, what would they have had to endure as the brothers to the successful Alexandra, and why do they blame her for the eventual tragic events of their lives?
Cather, W. (1913). O Pioneers! (Dover Thrift) wep site https://cather.unl.edu/writings/books/0002