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As is customary, you will need to give title (of relevant reading/s) and author(s) in your introduction, as well as offer a brief plot summary of narrative works (Buddah Baby, “Famous”). Don’t necessarily expect to know your thesis right away; be alert to possibilities for ‘growing’ it, for shaping, slicing and dicing, as necessary, as you refine your thoughts about the text(s). Thesis statements, which need not be limited to one sentence but which must stand out as your main point, will reflect your governing angle or focus, your “way in” to the story, and normally should express a focused generalization about the major meaning you feel the story offers (with respect to the topic you choose below). Important conventions: you’ll need to link your ideas in the body of your essay to story details which show where you’re deriving your ideas from—“show how you know, what you know.” Related to this, remember that quotes are not self-explanatory: you’ll need to explain to your reader why they mean what you say they do! And remember that no matter what topic you choose, you want to push your thesis, and your discussion, to say something important about not just the story but also about our lives outside it. Related to this, you may if you wish extend your discussion to include analysis of your own experiences and observations. 1. Examine Lindsey’s situation—perhaps her sense of having nowhere to turn—in the novel Buddha Baby with respect to any single or any combination of the following passages from Jhumpha Lahiri’s “My Two Lives”: -- “I felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new, approved of on either side of the [Indian-American] hyphen [....] But my perception as a young girl was that I fell short at both ends, shuffling between two dimensions that had nothing to do with one another.” -- “In spite of my first lessons of arithmetic, one plus one did not equal two but zero, my conflicting selves always canceling each other out.” -- “The traditions on either side of the hyphen dwell in me like siblings, still occasionally sparring, one outshining the other depending on the day.” -- “I will continue to interpret the term ‘Indian-American,’ calculating that shifting equation, whatever answers it may yield.” You may also if you wish consider other points Lahiri makes as you write your essay. For this topic, you’ll need to introduce her as the author of “My Two Lives” in your paper’s introduction (along with BB). 2. “In Chinese, the individual didn’t matter as much as the family as a whole” (110). But Lindsey describes herself as “knowingly swimming against the tide of Chinese expecations” (14), including the cultural value of the importance of the group, as opposed to the individual, as is characteristic of American culture. Analyze the ways in which these differing values influence Lindsey in the novel, paying particular attention to points where they conflict. (You may also if you wish also analyze tensions between other cultural values, too). 3. Explore Lindsey’s depiction of the “Angy Asian Male” (pgs 85-90 & elsewhere), perhaps explaining to your readers what it is that Lindsey’s doesn’t get or doesn’t understand about her encounters with random, male, Asian strangers—doesn’t understand about Asian men. Is there anything she or we her readers are missing in her description of herself as a “bull’s-eye in a mysterious, hostile game of target practice within [her] own ethnic group” (87)? 4. Examine a few key points in Buddah Baby with respect to your own observations or experiences; be sure to discuss specifics from the novel to set up your own self-exploration. Recommeded: try to offer a point-based set of comparisons (and/or contrasts) between Lindsay and yourself. “Point-based” means you’ll referring to both her and you in each body paragraph, being careful to signal transitions between the two with words such as “similarly”, or “by contrast”, etc. 5. Define and discuss important new insight gained by one or two characters from our readings—or focus on missed opportunities to gain new insight. Or analyze how a character or characters change over the course of a story we’ve read; alternatively, analyze how a character(s) resists change or is blind to the need for change. 6. How do our main characters in Famous All Over Town and in Buddha Baby find their way through their two cultures, the parents’ and the American? Try to offer a point-based set of comparisons (and/or contrasts) between the way Rudy and Lindsay “deal”—deal with their families and with the adopted culture at large. (“Point-based” means you’ll be using examples from both texts in each body paragraph, just as many of you did with multiple texts in the Culture Shock essay). Consider, for example, Lindsay’s awareness that her values and ‘life-style’ conflict with Chinese tradition. 7. Discuss the art museum Hoarders of All Things Asian with respect to the way people find comfort in confronting the new or the ‘alien’ through knock-offs (imitations) and knickknacks—giftshop representations. Who projects what upon whom? What is mistaken in their expectation, and how can you generalize about the motives for and outcomes of this sort of thing? 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