This is the prompt: “write a, 1300-1500 word, paper that makes an argument about a text we have read during the first half of the semester, based on close-reading as well as relevant scholarly sources. A minimum of 5 scholarly, peer-reviewed sources are required. Remember to include a Works Cited page to cite the original text you are analyzing and the outside sources! You will also need to include in-text/parenthetical citations within the essay with the page numbers (or line numbers if you are discussing poetry) in order to properly reference the textyou will do this for summarizations, paraphrasing, and direct quotes of the literature you are discussing and any outside sources you use to support your argument and analysis. For additional information regarding citation, you can consult the OWL Purdue.”
The text is the book The Leavers by Lisa Ko. In this book, Ko explores issues surrounding the model minority stereotype through the lens of an adopted Asian American boy named Deming.
The thesis should be something like: In this class we’ve explored much on the topic of the model minority stereotype and the pressures that Asian Americans children face from both their parents and from society. Lisa Ko’s The Leavers shows a different kind of model minority that establishes the pressures of the stereotypical model minority while adding the pressures of being adopted into a white American family as a minority.
