Writing Homework Help

For this assignment, you will write a paper examining the two novels, Indian Horse and The Nickel Boys. In your paper you will do a comparative study of the two novels, focusing on how the authors use social injustice as a vehicle to tell their stories.

You are required to use passages from both texts in your paper. In other words, you should use quotes in your paper. Using quotes will strengthen your paper. Make sure to credit your sources (the writers) after you quote. You should use MLA format in your paper.

Your paper must be written in essay form (An introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion). Your paper must be at least three pages long (this is the minimum length of your paper)

Analyzing social injustice in The Nickel Boys and Indian Horse

Instructions:

In the novels, Indian Horse (by Richard Wagamese) and The Nickel Boys (by Colson Whitehead), the writers focus on North American learning institutions (St. Jerome’s Indian Residential School and The Nickel Academy), where children are detained against their will, and become victims of social injustice. In your paper, you will closely analyze the two novels, comparing and contrasting the way that the authors write about social injustice of young people in their stories.

In your paper, make sure to include the following:

1. How the children in the novels become residents of the school.

2. Who the authorities in charge of the schools are.

3. The type of education the children receive at the schools.

4. The type of punishments the children receive at the school.

5. The coping skills of the children at the school.

6. The social injustice inflicted upon the children at their schools, and the children’s reaction to the injustice.

You are required to use passages from both texts in your paper. In other words, you should use quotes in your paper. Using quotes will strengthen your paper. Make sure to credit your sources (the writers) after you quote. You should use MLA format in your paper.

Your paper should be written in essay form (An introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion). Your paper must be at least three pages long (this is the minimum length of your paper).

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