(Answered) After reading the “Letters” section of Frankenstein, why do you think that Mary Shelley started off Frankenstein the way that she did? Why did she frame her novel with the epistolary?

After reading the “Letters” section of Frankenstein, why do you think that Mary Shelley started off Frankenstein the way that she did? Why did she frame her novel with the epistolary? What effect does that have on the rest of the novel? Also, why did she begin her “Letters” section in the specific setting that […]

(Answered) An Epistolary on Racial Progress

For this assignment, write a brief letter to a younger relative in the style of Baldwin and Coates’ letters to their relatives. Your letter should address and answer the questions: Are things better now than they have been before? How should a young person reckon America’s ideals and America’s reality? •James Baldwin. “My Dungeon Shook: […]