Posted on June 5, 2018 Updated on June 5, 2018

Prompts for Essay 1: minimum of 3 full pages, MLA, need quotes from “maddle passage”.Choose one specific theme or motif and analyze its significance throughout the novel. How and why does the text use this theme? What commentary and/or argument does the author make through it?

THEMES & MOTIFS: slavery, imprisonment, identity/hybridity of identity, racism, ownership, profit, the sea, the ship, mythology, literacy, self-expression, domesticity, trauma, self-sacrifice, black heritage, gender dynamics, cultural hybridity, liminality (in-betweenness), masculinity, family, religion, transformation of identity, (or any more you can think of)