DIRECTIONS: Write a well-organized composition on the topic below.
In literature, a character’s society, culture, or immediate environment may undergo a significant change of some sort. This change, and the character’s response to it, can be vital to the central idea of the work.
From the novels, short stories, full-length plays, films, poems, biographies, and autobiographies you have read, select a work that depicts a society, culture, or environment that has undergone a significant change. Using specific references from the work, explain the nature of this change and its impact on a single character. Explain how the character’s response to this change relates to a major theme of the work.
As you write your composition, remember to:
- Give the title and the author of the work.
- Focus on a work depicting a society, culture, or environment that has undergone a significant change.
- Give specific examples, reasons, and details from the work to explain the nature of this change and its impact on a single character.
- Explain how the character’s response to this change relates to a major theme of the work.
- Give any necessary plot information but avoid giving a plot summary.
- Write in complete sentences.
- Write coherent and well-developed paragraphs.
- Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
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