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You are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on one of the 4 prompts and what you have read and learned in this module. These are your options: 1. How do the events of "The White Umbrella" teach the narrator a lesson about shame and acceptance? 2. What role does creativity play in "The Bat-Poet"? 3. How does the character of Squeaky change over the course of "Raymond's Run"? 4. Discuss the influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit. You are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on what you have read and learned in this module. Your final submission should meet the following requirements. • Submit completed pre-writing and outline documents. • Write an essay that contains an introduction with hook and thesis statement, supporting paragraphs with evidence and at least one quotation, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and reviews main points. • Use transitions appropriate to the pattern of organization. • Use vocabulary to create tone and voice. • Cite primary source (quotation). • Submit completed revision checklist. • Vary sentence structure. • Create sentences with parallel structures. • Use technology in the writing process.

Answer 1

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Question  1. Answer At the beginning of the story, the narrator is ashamed of her mother. By the end of the story, when she fears she has lost her forever, she comes to accept her mother.The narrator is an immigrant girl from China. She is embarrassed by her parents, both of whom work and are different from others. She wants to be like her piano teacher. When her piano teacher gives her a white umbrella, she tells the teacher she wishes she were her mother. On the way home, they get in a car accident and for a moment she is afraid her mother has been killed. She feels ashamed for wishing she had a different mother. She accepts her mother for who she is and immediately tosses the umbrella in the sewer.

Question 2. Answer I think creativity's role in the poem is to explain the nature of humans by comparing it with animal behavior. It tries to express alienation and being unique by using the bat's experience in the porch. The poem expresses man's human nature of breaking out of his zone and goes back to who he was in the end.

Question 3. Answer At the beginning of the story, Squeaky comes across as a strong, no-nonsense kind of girl. She is able to fend for herself and also takes care of her older brother, Raymond, who is mentally challenged. This should be quite a big responsibility for Squeaky considering her age, yet she is able to take this in stride.

Answer 2

The narrator is ashamed of her mother, but accepts her when she met with an accident. 2- Creativity is used by comparing humans with animal behavior, 3-Squeaky changed with the responsibilities of her brother.

Who is a narrator?

A narrator is usually a third person in the story, who narrates the fictional incidence in the story. A narration is mainly done in chronological order, in the order of the occurrence of events.

In the story, "The White Umbrella", the narrator was ashamed of her mother and wanted to be like her piano teacher, narrator wishes that her mother should get changed, but she accepts her mother when she was feared with the thought of losing her mother after she met with an accident.

Creativity, in "The Bat-Poet", plays an important role by comparing the humans with animal behavior.

Squeaky gets changed over the course of, "Raymond's Run', as she was burdened with the responsibilities for her mentally challenged brother Raymond, which changed her from a silly girl to a responsible girl.

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