In your essay, explain what makes a literary work a “good read.” Discuss five literary works to support your thesis. Three of them must be
Diaz Junot’s “Cheater’s Guide to Love,” Alan Dugan’s “Love Song: I and Thou,” William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 127,” Tobias Wolff’s “Beautiful Girl” and James Baldwin’s 1962 Novel “Another Country.”
Write a 1,250-word (five-page) essay with a variety of paragraphs. In your essay, explain what makes a literary work a “good read.” Discuss five literary works to support your thesis. Three of them must be works we discussed in this class, and the others (if you choose) can be works you know and love and read outside of this class. After your essay, introduce a short poem or flash fiction story (no more than 300 words) that you wrote, and discuss the writing process: what did it teach you–if anything–about the challenges involved in creating a good literary work?
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