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Choose one of the options below and write a summary on the back of this sheet. Include one source from a Galileo database and write that source in MLA format. Recommended databases are: Proquest One Literature, Literature Criticism Online, and Literary Reference Center Plus.
Option 1: Show how a writer’s background or philosophy of life influenced his or her writings.
Example: “Geoffrey Chaucer’s Scholarship of Language as Revealed in His Works”
Option 2: Show how a literary piece reflects on the era in which it was written or written about.
Example: “World War II as Shown in Albert Camus’s The Stranger”
Option 3: Examine a theme specific to a particular literary work.
Example: “The Theme of Injustice in the Hebrew Book of Job”