How does his modern piece of literature help us understand identity? , English homework help

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This assignment is designed to allow you to explore a reading from the course in more depth or research and learn about a new piece (you need to seek my approval) of literature from the modern or postmodern period. We will be reading a variety of pieces from a variety of authors. Throughout the term, we will be asking essentially the same question: "How does his modern piece of literature help us understand identity?" You should choose one piece of literature from this term or chose a new piece and explore that question with the help of at least three secondary sources.


The paper should be a full 3-4 double-spaced pages (no less than 1000 words) with proper in-text citations and a Works Cited page formatted according to current MLA guidelines. Be sure to carefully credit your sources, although you want to quote sparingly and paraphrase when possible.

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conradhttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/219?msg=welcome_stranger “The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/ George Washington Williams's Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo, 1890 http://www.blackpast.org/george-washington-williams-open-letter-king-leopold-congo1890 Mark Twain: “King Leopold’s Soliloquy” Claude McKay: "Outcast" (p. 241) Langston Hughes "Theme for English B" Gwendolyn Brooks: "Song in the Front Yard" Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" Apocolypse Now (You can view this film on Netflix. You can also try or "On Demand," Amazon, YouTube, your local library, amongst the many sources to find and watch films.) Modernism T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 221-4 W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” p. 306 Constantine Kavafy: "Days of 1908" p. 238 W.H. Auden “September 1, 1939” (link) Finish The Metamorphosis (pp. 253 - 284)) E.A. Robinson’s “Richard Cory” (link) W.B. Yeats “Among Schoolchildren” (link) Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” (link) Levine’s “What Work Is” (link) Emily Dickinson - biographical information (link) Read and/or listen to 4 of Emily Dickinson's poems, including "I heard a Fly buzz - when I die". - poems (link) Sylvia Plath - biographical information (link) - "Three Women" (link to read) - "Three Women" (link to hear) Virginia Woolf - biographical information (pp. 172 - 4) ***Begin reading Mrs. Dalloway
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ANALYZING THE THEME OF IDENTITY IN THE BOOK HEART OF DARKNESS
One of the things that have been said about Africa is that ‘The darkest thing about Africa
has always been our ignorance of it.' It is a characteristic that becomes evident in the book as the
reader takes through the journey which the book seeks to analyze. There is need to have a
perspective on the identity which has been talked about in the novel, with the need to have a link
between the novel and the modern identity.
It should be noted that the essay does not seek to talk about Africa and its darkness as is
presented in the novel, but rather, a generalization of the critical allusions that the book creates,
especially regarding the identity that the writer brings to himself, the women, some characters
and the geographical areas in which the setting of the novel takes place. For starters, it would not
be surprising that most people in Western countries have the least idea about Africa, and most of
their judgment is based on exotic beliefs that they have read r acquired through inaccurate media
houses. Perhaps, it would be worth to start by mentioning that the African continent has been one
continent that has been influenced by the western culture, which has been mainly hidden

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