For this essay assignment, select one person or character who is important to you as you develop and grow as a human being. You may choose from these people or figures: a person who is living or dead, a literary or film character, a musical star, a film, drama, opera star, an historical figure (living or dead), a mythical figure, a spiritual figure (deity, prophet, person), a political figure.
Choose a person you know or look up to, one whom you regard as a hero. Choose a person who has been influential in your life, someone you want to know more about, that you see as motivating or changing your way of thinking. Describe the person, then explain and analyze the importance he or she has had and continues to have in your life.
I want this essay to be quite open in form so that you may choose anyone or any character who is important to you-and then write an analytical/expository essay with research about that person.
The goal here is to learn more about yourself and who is important to your present and future life.
With that in mind, choose at least one essay from The Norton Readerand then add at least two other sources to back up your thesis. You'll have a total of at least three sources. You may include images and sub-titles as discussed in class to add to the depth of understanding in your essay. If you add images, be sure to include explanation of the image within the text. Sub-titles are meant to move your essay from one section to another; sub-titles act as transitions.
the essays that you can chose from in The Norton Reader is
"The Way to Rainy Mountain," N. Scott Momaday 80
"On Writing," Stephen King 257
"The Clan of the One-Breasted Women," Terry Tempest Williams 312
"Letter from Birmingham Jail", Martin Luther King Jr. 502
"One Writer's Beginnings," Eudora Welty 565.