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Recommended List of Novels for English AP* Literature and Composition:
Joy Kogawa
Obasan Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:   In this novel, a character who appears briefly, or does not apppear at all, is a significant presence.  Write an essay that shows how this character functions in this work.  You may wish to discuss how the character affects action, theme, or the development of other characters. Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:    This work highlights the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed.  Write a well-organized essay that analyzes how the alienation of one character reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.   
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:  Critique Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the answer."  Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers.  Explain how the author's treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole.  Avoid mere plot summary.
A Choice of Dreams;     Itsuka;    Jericho;    Naomi's Road;   The Rain Ascends. Essay Prompt on Attitude:  Read carefully the excerpt from Obason, a novel about the relocation of Japanese Canadians to internment camps during WWII.  Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how changes in style and perspective reflect the narrator's complex attitude toward the past.  In your analysis, consider literary elements such as point of view, structure, selection of detail, and figurative speech.)
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