4. Part of learning how to be a good writer is in learning to assess your own work and the work of others. So, in an effort to practice this skill, please choose one of your favorite works of fiction
and evaluate how successfully the author was able to weave the theme through the story. Did
the author utilize any of the following to weave in the theme: character actions, symbolic
environment, repeating ideas, highlighting symbols, or contrasting values?
5. At the end of the unit, it is stated that: "Through writing, your voice, yes, yours, will resonate
through into the larger world and possibly change the existing reality, as a result. That my friend,
is a powerful gift and one that deserves the utmost respect and concentration. Please describe
a piece of writing that you have read that has been so powerful it changed your reality, on
someone's reality that you know. What made the writing so powerful? How did it change
your/another's reality?