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The Bluest Eye Research Prompts Through this essay, you will demonstrate the capacity to analyze a complex literary text and to construct a sophisticated argument in clear and compelling prose. The following are the requirements for the: • Your paper must be focused on the novel. • It must be an analysis and not a summary. Explain WHY rather than WHAT HAPPENED.) • It must contain at least 5 secondary scholarly sources from a library database. Google Scholar does not count. • It must be 7 to 10 pages in MLA format. • Your paper must contain a few direct quotes from your sources but cannot be more than a 15% score on the SafeAssign scale. ( Think about averaging about 2 sentences per page. Use one sentence from each source. Paraphrase and cite is a good strategy.) The Bluest Eye openly discusses a variety of social taboos by various members of a Black community in Ohio. She writes with the idea that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and so the topics are painful but cathartic. Choose one of the following prompts and write a research paper discussing it. Choose one of the following and follow the Research Process below. Following this process will you to work much more smoothly and efficiently. 1. The Bluest Eye is an excellent example regarding the destroying effects of Negrophobia among the black community. Discuss the genealogy of internalized racism on 2. In The Bluest Eye, sex is associated with violence, humiliation, and immorality. Discuss the connection between sexual violence and oppression as seen in 1 or 2 characters in the novel. If you choose to include 2 characters, be sure to have one of the characters be Cholly. (Sex) 3. The Bluest Eye is obsessed with colors. Throughout the novel, the reference to green recurs. Explore, then, the aesthetics and politics of color (beyond black and white and other colors—like blue—that can be said to stand for these) in the novel. (Symbolism) 4. Cleanliness, or the lack thereof, features prominently in The Bluest Eye. Analyze the role that cleanliness plays to the larger psychological make-up of that character. (Psychological)The Bluest Eye Research Prompts
Through this essay, you will demonstrate the capacity to analyze a complex literary text
and to construct a sophisticated argument in clear and compelling prose. The following are
the requirements for the paper:
• Your paper must be focused on the novel.
• It must be an analysis and not a summary. Explain WHY rather than WHAT
HAPPENED.)
• It must contain at least 5 secondary scholarly sources from a library database.
Google Scholar does not count.
• It must be 7 to 10 pages in MLA format.
• Your paper must contain a few direct quotes from your sources but cannot be more
than a 15% score on the SafeAssign scale. ( Think about averaging about 2
sentences per page. Use one sentence from each source. Paraphrase and cite is a
good strategy.)
The Bluest Eye openly discusses a variety of social taboos by various members of a Black
community in Ohio. She writes with the idea that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and so
the topics are painful but cathartic. Choose one of the following prompts and write a
research paper discussing it.
Choose one of the following and follow the Research Process below. Following this
process will you to work much more smoothly and efficiently.
1. The Bluest Eye is an excellent example regarding the destroying effects of
Negrophobia among the black community. Discuss the genealogy of internalized
racism on 1 or 2 characters in the novel and its consequences. (Beauty)
2. In The Bluest Eye, sex is associated with violence, humiliation, and immorality.
Discuss the connection between sexual violence and oppression as seen in 1 or 2
characters in the novel. If you choose to include 2 characters, be sure to have one of
the characters be Cholly. (Sex)
3. The Bluest Eye is obsessed with colors. Throughout the novel, the reference to
green recurs. Explore, then, the aesthetics and politics of color (beyond black and
white and other colors—like blue—that can be said to stand for these) in the novel.
(Symbolism)
4. Cleanliness, or the lack thereof, features prominently in The Bluest Eye. Analyze
the role that cleanliness plays to the larger psychological make-up of that character.
(Psychological)
Essay Research Process
Step 1 Finish primary text
Step 2 Look at possibilities or what is asked of you
Step 3 Freewrite and brainstorm on that prompt to
develop your foundational ideas-1st Draft.
Step 4 Develop a general OUTLINE.
Step 5 Research your topic.
Step 6 Revisit your OUTLINE.
Step 7 Generate a Works Cited.
Step 8 Generate a RAB.
Step 9 Write 2nd Draft of paper.
Step 10 Review feedback
Step 11 Revise paper
Step 12 Another draft possible?
