4. Through Phoenix's strenuous journey in the wild country of Natchez Trace, Eudora Welty uses her protagonist to symbolically show the struggle of African Americans toward equality and integration in...

Extracted text: 4. Through Phoenix's strenuous journey in the wild country of Natchez Trace, Eudora Welty uses her protagonist to symbolically show the struggle of African Americans toward equality and integration in the South after the Civil War. 5. Ivan's 25 years of imprisonment is not a wasted time of his life because his faith made him a better person even in the worst place on earth.


Extracted text: C. Analyze each text and identify what approach in critiquing a literary selection is being utilized by the writer. Choose the letter from the choices below, then write the letter of the correct answer on the blanks before each number: A. Structuralist/Formalist B. Moralist C. Marxist D. Feminist E. Historical F. Reader-response 1. Study the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This book takes place in the American South in the 19th century and follows a white boy, Huck, as helps a black slave, Jim, escape his situation. Here we've got quite a bit more detail. Instead of just two large classes, society is divided into several smaller ones. 2. Judith Little and Megan S. Lloyd argue that Alice is a "literally underground image of a "woman" battling the "system." Still, they also view Alice's insistence, activity and curiosity as typically "Unvictorian traits that make her an example of a seditious woman. But for Lloyd, Alice can also be considered as an ideal role model for any society simultaneously. 3. Samuel Johnson once stressed in his novel entitled, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia the following words: "I have here the world before me; I will review it at leisure surely happiness is somewhere to be found... Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. happiness,' to search for perpetual bliss. However, he realizes that this kind of happiness does not exist. He simply recounts the story of a prince who escapes from the valley of