Week 6 discussion
DQ1 USING CRITICAL
APPROACHES
Sarah from the Week 6 You Decide has written two potential
thesis statements to work from.
For thesis 1: In the story Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison shows
that a society in which one group of powerful men can legally humiliate another
group of men without punishment makes social equality impossible.
For thesis 2: The narrator of Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal
learns that in the segregated South of the 1940s, African-Americans were in a
constant battle against racist oppression, but had no clear strategy for
winning the battle.
In this week’s discussion, choose one of the thesis
sentences and state which critical perspective better fits that thesis, then
explain what kind of research evidence Sarah should look for to support her
thesis and provide details from the story Battle Royal that best support that
thesis.
DQ2 RACE AND
ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE
In David Henry Hwang’s Trying to Find Chinatown, Ronnie says
to Benjamin “There’re worlds out there, worlds you haven’t even begun to
understand.” What does he mean by this? Using Trying to Find Chinatown and one
other literary reading from this week except Battle Royal, explain how Ronnie’s
statement is a theme in literature about race and ethnic relations.





