III. Essay Question:
Write an essay of 400 words in which you do the following: Identify a major theme in James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” and analyze how it is developed. Your essay should make specific references to the literary work through the use of summary and paraphrases. This essay will be evaluated for content, organization, reading comprehension, and grammar, and sentence structure.
II. Quote Identification:
After carefully reading the selected passages from below, identify (who is speaking, to whom is he or she is speaking), the significance of the quote to the literary work as a whole, and the approximate date or period of the literary work.
1. “For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and real wisdom, being the pretense of knowing the unknown.”
2. “I do not know what barbarians these are . . . but the formation of this army that I see is not at all barbarous.”
3. “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?”