Over the course of the first semester, you have seen how literature can be used for a variety of purposes. choose a work from units 2 or 7 (in moy reading selections attachment) that serves each of these purposes— readers survive in a new land, contributing to the creation of a new nation, or transitioning into a new reality of life—and explain in a well-organized essay how the work you chose serves its purpose.

unit 2 works:

aboard a slave ship olaudah equiano

“the star spangled banner” francis scott key

unit 7 works:

i will fight no more forever, chief joseph (hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt)

“to the maiden” and “a man said to the universe” stephen crane