Writing Homework Help

Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy”

300-400 words

Make sure to

1. Make your topic and text clear in the first sentence.
2. Use a properly cited snippet of evidence from the text to support what you are saying.

The choice of topic is entirely up to you.

Some ideas: you may wish to write on how a particular passage is put together, how a critical theory illuminates a scene in the story, or on characterization, narrative techniques, representations of love or desire or sexuality, gender identity or gender expression or gender roles, friendship or courtship or marriage, border-crossing, code-switching, cultural hybridity, cultural expectations, the immigrant experience, or power relations.