Analyze and interpret the connections between two books Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer-Essay Literature
instructions:
Here is the outline, I already chose the books, and they are are Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Some things to consider are the connections to eastern philosophy, the wandering to find themselves. IMPORTANT TO USE BOTH BOOKS AS SOURCES IN ADDITION TO 4 SOURCES!!!
Option 2:
For whichever option you choose, if you would like to write your essay on one of the authors from Week 4 (Camus, Borges, or Achebe), you may, but you will need to use at least three short stories for the author you choose (in place of a novel). Alternatively, for Camus and Achebe anyway, you may use a novel not on our reading list, rather than the short stories (I might suggest, if you go that route, Camus’s The Stranger and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Borges didn’t write novels).Option 2: “Search” Essay
Write an essay in which you analyze and interpret some connection between two works from the class. These could be some “loose” connections to consider:
“Coming of age” novels (or bildungsromans) · Two books as “spiritual” journeys
Political satire
Politics, power, the individual, etc
More formal stuff: tone, character, perspective, theme, and so on
There are some really interesting possibilities with how comedy works in some of these books · How do two of the books speak to or seem to expect things from the reader? Anyway, these are just some “starter” ideas; the topic is wide open, though you should be sure that you are making a particular claim (that you have a thesis) and that you’re analyzing and interpreting (not just summarizing and describing).
Requirements: 2000 words; 4 research sources (in addition to the primary source from the class); due Day 7 of Week 6 (the very last day of the class–no late policy applies here; I need the paper by the due date).
For whichever option you choose, if you would like to write your essay on one of the authors from Week 4 (Camus, Borges, or Achebe), you may, but you will need to use at least three short stories for the author you choose (in place of a novel). Alternatively, for Camus and Achebe anyway, you may use a novel not on our reading list, rather than the short stories (I might suggest, if you go that route, Camus’s The Stranger and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Borges didn’t write novels).
