1. In many of the novels and stories that we've looked at, characters' lives are affected and even shaped by violence. Focusing on two novels or stories you've not already written about in your previous essay, compare how one character from each text responds to the violence in their lives and what this tells us about each character and the societies in which they live.

2. The tension between the use of English and and of native languages such as Cree is a recurring theme in many of the texts we've looked at so far. Focusing on one novel you have not already looked at in your previous essay, examine the politics of language use in that text. How are the different languages regarded by the characters? What does it mean to them to use one instead of (or in addition to) the other? As part of your essay, you may wish to incorporate quotations or ideas from some of the early articles we read, or from Thomas King's The Truth About Stories. Your essay, though, must focus on one of the novels or short stories.

3. All of the texts we've read so far deal in one way or another with the collision between cultures, between the world view of Natives and that of non-Natives. Focusing on two novels or short stories we've read, examine several key moments in each text that are pivotal to that text's development of this theme. What do these collisions reveal about both sides? Keeping in mind the didactic aims of the works that we've read, what do you think that the authors of each text are hoping that these scenes will demonstrate to the non-Native reader?

DUE DATE: Thursday, April 24th
Essay length: 1500 - 1800 words