Literature and Ideas
Fall 2006
Third Paper Topics
Due: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
9:00 a.m.
Please write about one of the following.
Last Days of Summer is most centrally a book about mentoring. One truth of successful mentoring is that the person mentored as well as the mentor benefit in obvious--and not so obvious ways. Discuss and illustrate how this theme is developed in the book.
American novels frequently develop the theme of the land as an important regenerative force for the central characters. Discuss and illustrate how this theme is developed in Wish You Well.