Approved "Guiding Questions"

The following are guiding questions that have been approved. These questions should guide your initial research and culminate in the formation of a working thesis:

Julianna
How do the three methods of "time travel" in Time Out of Joint, Time and Again, and The End of Eternity bresult in the time-travel creators' "playing God," and what are, ot could have been, the consequences of their actions?

Ashley
How do Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, and The Naked and the Dead show the effect of the imminence of death on soldiers fighting in World War II?

Jennifer
In what ways do Little Women, The Age of Innocence, and Peony portray the conflict between duty and personal interests in a moral light?

Larry
How do Mark Twain's novels and short stories portray maturity, the maturing process, or the lack of maturity in people and American society?

Sean
How do the characters in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, The Promise, and My Name is Asher Lev reconcile their faith and tradition with modern secular society?

Annmarie
What do Not Without Laughter, The Outsider, and Contending Forces have to say about black communities after the Civil War?

Olivia
In what ways do To Kill a Mockingbird, The Invisible Man, and A Lesson Before Dying express racial injustice through forms of government oppression?

Joseph B
How do Johnny Got His Gun, The Red Badge of Courage, and Slaughterhouse Five go about showing the effects war can have on a man?

Gabriela
How do Black Boy, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Uncle Tom's Cabin demonstrate that racism is incompatible with civil and natural law?

Elizabeth
In what ways do Contending Forces, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Uncle Tom's Cabin scrutinize the absurdity and selfishness of putting one's own race above another?

Marcella
What do Willa Cather's My Antonia, O Pioneers!, and A Lost Lady have to say about the American Dream"?