Synthesize and evaluate your thoughts and response. Researching and preparing for a discussion helps to ensure the
effectiveness and efficiency of a collaborative discussion. To start forming your response, write down your initial
thoughts on your chosen topic
Here are some questions you can consider when formulating your thesis:
1. How did historical events affect American literature? (Sample question: How did the Civil War affect American
Literature?)
2. How did the Civil War transform American literature?
3. Does literature affect history?
4. What events were affected by literature?
5. How does history affect current pieces of writing? Or does it only affect literature from the same period?

Bescribe a food from your country that many people enjoy

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme

Which piece of evidence from the article best explains a reason for black writers to differentiate their writing styles from white writers?