Authors to compare (choose 2)

• Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Gilded Six Bits

• Langston Hughes
  • You and Your Whole Race
  • Remember

• Claude McKay
  • A Long Way From Home, Chapter 12

• Alice Walker
  • The Welcome Table

• Toni Morrison
  • The Perfect Ease of Grain
  • I Am Not Seaworthy
  • The Town is Lit
  • The Lacemaker

Please be sure to include the following in your assignment submission:

1. Write a formal, 5-paragraph essay in APA format, including a cover page, in response to this question. Base your answer on your own observations and support your assertions quoting from your assigned readings.

2. Read the assigned readings. Highlight quotes, summarize, or paraphrase from this week’s readings and be sure to include an in-text citation in proper APA format (Author, year, p. X).

3. Include three quotes from our readings. When you discuss literature, it is all about the words before you. They are yours to consider and reflect on. You will want to make a strong assertion and prove it, or support it, by quoting from the readings. Include three quotes in our essay.

4. Create a strong thesis for your essay. A thesis states your main idea in a sentence. A sample thesis (which you are free to use) might be: Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are both award-winning authors that share a similar theme, yet they differ greatly in voice, dialogue, and characterization.

Be sure to include an APA reference page