Read about the lives of three people: Edna Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert
Pershing Foster, and have been reading about how their individual journeys reflect the lives and experiences of the 6 million African Americans who migrated from Southern to Northern states in the decades spanning 1910-1970.
At the same time, you have been learning about the environment and laws that created the Great Migration as well as the environments and laws the migrants faced when they arrived in Northern and Western states.
In our reading of The Warmth of Other Suns, we can see that Isabel Wilkerson describes and illustrates certain concepts and ideas, or certain qualities and characteristics, that run through the history of the Great Migration, and also that run through the stories of the three individual characters.
In Week 7, you started doing the work of thinking about, listing, and collaborating with your classmates to create a running list of these concepts/themes or qualities that you see.
Essay 2 Task
In Essay 2, you are going to write an essay in which you:
Discuss a concept, theme or quality that you believe is present in The Warmth of Other Suns, and
discuss the ways in which that concept, theme or quality is carried out or manifested in the the life of one of the three main characters (Edna Mae, George, or Robert).
