| Conway's
The Road from Coorain is many
things: a study of gender, a personal exploration of family, a
tracing of her formal and informal education, an attempt to answer
questions which she didn't even know he had. She certainly
journeys from the country to the city, but she also journeys from not
knowing to knowing, a journey truly tied to where she found herself.
For your first essay, I'd like you to
think about that notion of "journeying" a bit. In a
thesis-focused* essay of 750-1000 words, discuss how Conway's time spent
living in either the outback or Sydney influenced how she understood the world. For
this essay, concentrate upon any relevant section of the book, using its
episodes as evidence for your ideas.
*N.B. As you'll be learning in your English 110
courses soon, a "thesis" means an arguable assertion. It's not
enough to say that Conway lived on a sheep ranch. Instead, you have to
generate an idea that must be demonstrated to your reader (and not
simply agreed with by him or her). |
