Assignment: Please write a 2-3 page typed, double-spaced essay in response to the
prompts below. Turnitin.com will be turned on for this assignment and the rubrics are below.
As we have noticed, Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye is a novel about childhoodthis is
signaled to us by the Dick and Jane story on the first page.
As we finish reading this novel, I am reminded that your own childhood and adolescence
has been forever imprinted with the mark of Covid-19. You are about to leave childhood and
enter legal adulthood, but I wonder how the world we are currently living in will change you.
Essay Prompt: If childhood is a topic of Morrisons The Bluest Eye, what is the novels theme
about the topic of childhood? Remember that a theme is the authors message about a given
topic. Your analysis must be supported with quotes from the text. Show me that youve read.
Furthermore, how could you compare/contrast what the novel says about childhood to your
own experience of childhood during Covid-19?
Please note that this is a two-pronged promptit requires both analytic and reflective writing.
About half of the essay should be about the novel and half of the essay should be about
yourself and your own experiences.
Use 2-3 quotes per paragraph and have a clear thesis
Use MLA citations (Author last name, page number)
Rubric:
1. All requirements fulfilled.
2. Quality of thesis.
3. Quality of analysis of TBE.
4. Quality of TS.
5. Quality of self-reflection (Applies to prompt 2).
6. Organization.
7. SWE.
8. Essay demonstrates that student has read the text.
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