Sunday, October 11, 2009

Final Native Son Blog Post: Fate or Hatred

For your final blog post on Native Son, remember to not choose the theme/topic you chose to write about for your last homework assignment. So if you wrote about Fate, write about Hatred this time, and vice versa. Regardless, format your post like this:

  • The title of your post should be creative but connect to either the theme/topic of Fate or Hatred, depending on which you need to write about.
  • A quote that connects to either Fate or Hatred, depending on which one you need to write about (with page number, and if applicable, which character).
  • Having finished the novel, offer your opinion on either A) Why was this Bigger's fate? Why did author Richard Wright choose to end his life this way? or B) What role did hatred play in Bigger's death? Who did Bigger hate and why, and who hated Bigger and why?
  • Connect Fate or Hatred (whichever you are writing about) to another theme/topic talked about throughout the course of reading the novel: Fear, Flight, Blindness, Race, or Identity.
  • Use one vocab word (and bold it) from one of the vocab posts below either in your post or in...
  • One of your three comments on other classmates' blog posts, also required by the end of the hour (or by the day of the test, Wednesday, at the very latest).
Don't forget to put your initials both in your post and in your comments so I know what you wrote! Thx!