Essay Prompt Follow-Up: Below are some sample essay prompts that are not particularly clear or well-written. For each prompt, try to come up with three to five questions you would want to ask to gain further clarity about the assignment. (Note: We are just focused on the writing prompt here. We will assume that technical information like essay length, due date, and other formatting requirements are provided, and thus we do not need to ask about those.) 1. Write about a literary work that includes a very good hero.
2. Assess the role of the minor characters in a non-dramatic work from class?
3. Consider how the idea of maturity or immaturity or initiation or change shows up in major works from our anthology?

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

How does loma cervantes celebrate her culture in “freeway 280”? ?

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?