Demonstrating how Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine serves as witness to a social issue or problem of the past that persists in the present.
Write a thesis-driven, analytical essay demonstrating how Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine serves as witness to a social issue or problem of the past that persists in the present.
Paper details:
Please read through the files that are attached, here are the links for the sources to incorporate into the essay.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-internment-anniversary-20170219-story.html
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/07/504602293/at-92-a-japanese-american-reflects-on-the-hardships-of-internment-camps
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/516115506/75-years-later-americans-still-bear-scars-of-internment-order
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/20/621972727/for-some-japanese-americans-border-separations-are-deja-vu
1. The introductory section will prepare the reader for your essay’s focus. As always,
your introduction should engage the audience with an appropriate hook and then prepare the reader for your
analysis of a focused issue by incorporating necessary background information. Place your thesis at the end of
this section.
2.In the next section of your essay, advance the thesis statement in a series of focused, unified, and coherent body
paragraphs. Body paragraphs must be controlled by clear, strong topic sentences that force analysis and fully
develop the thesis. These paragraphs will cull evidence from the novel with information from your research.
Follow this with analysis that demonstrates how the evidence supports your point.
In the concluding section, provide some reflection. To do so, identify what knowledge might be gained by
reading the novel and how it offers a lesson for addressing the issue today.
3. In the concluding section, provide some reflection. To do so, identify what knowledge might be gained by
reading the novel and how it offers a lesson for addressing the issue today.
4. Your essay requires you to incorporate recent, credible evidence* from no
less than two and no more than four articles published by national and/or regional newspapers within the past
six months. Neither the novel nor resources available on our Canvas page count toward this requirement. If you
are interested in using a source outside these criteria, you must first receive clearance from me.