Students who neither submit an essay nor sit the December 1 exam will receive a zero for this assignment. All essays must be handed into me personally in class or left for me at the Porter's Lodge at Wetmore Hall, where it will be date-stamped. Essays may not be submitted by e-mail or other means. Choose your essay topic from the list below. Essay format, bibliography, and quotations should follow the recommendations of the MLA Handbook .
All topics are comparisons.
Be sure that you compare the novels, and not just combine two separate mini-essays into one. Essay Topics Children's literature as used by Niven's Ringworld and Card's Ender's Game . Distortions of time in King's Shining and Amis' Time's Arrow . Feminist cyborgs in Russ's Female Man and Gibson's Neuromancer . Ghosts in King's Shining and Green's Shadow of Ashland .