Bodega Dreams Prompt #3: Parallels

Identify and explain a parallel or connection you have found with The Great Gatsby. Give specific details, and discuss how this novel may put a "twist" on the element.

Bodega Dreams Prompt #2: Character

What character do you find the most interesting or intriguing so far? Explain why you chose your character and details about his/her development that are important.

Bodega Dreams Prompt #1: Passage Selection

Select a passage from Bodega Dreams that you found important, interesting, essential, or confusing. Type the passage with page # and analyze its significance.

American Lit. Author Essay Thesis Statement

Please post a potential thesis statement for your comparative analytical essay on your two novels. This statment must argue a thematic and/or stylistic similarity between the novels.

See the following great samples from last year for ideas:

#1
The protagonists in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk not only feel rejected by society but also by their families. These portrayals emphasize the effects of isolation along with the hardships many African-Americans face and have to overcome through self empowerment.

#2
The difference in style, in fact, actually mirrors both the difficulties in Rice's own life, and her struggle to find faith in the world around her. Consequently, both Vittorio the Vampire and its anthesis, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, depict the sorrow of the loss of innocence through tragedy, and the small hope illuminated in a strong faith.

#3
Although the two female main characters in Joyce Carol Oates's Foxfire and Black Water are on polar sides of their views of men, they are both defined by their father's actions, and in the future are challenged by male influence, ultimately bringing them to their defeat.

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