SORRY FOR THE LONG DESCRIPTION IM PROVIDING WHATEVER I THINK MAY HELP!! article called "Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again:Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holderof the World" by literary scholar Pallavi Rastogi. We will beexamining Rastogi's thesis in that article which appears early in thearticle (268-9).

This sentence begins on the previous page and so Rastogi's wholethesis sentence is as follows:

“Keeping in mind some of the problems that regularly surface inMukherjee's writing, I argue that The Holder of the World marks ashift in the assimilationist stance advocated in such earlier worksas Jasmine, The Tiger's Daughter, and Wife and instead searches for adialectic of intercultural negotiation through which mainstreamAmerican society is dramatically altered as much as it alters its ownimmigrant population.” (269)

When we analyze this long, complex but coherent sentence, werealize that the thesis statement happens in the second half of it.When we remove the subordinate phrases in the sentence, we can seethe core thesis sentence and thus Rastogi's full thesis statement:

I argue that The Holder of the World… searches for a dialecticof intercultural negotiation through which mainstream Americansociety is dramatically altered as much as it alters its ownimmigrant population. (269)

The work of your Final Essay will be to find out what Rastogimeans by "a dialectic of intercultural negotiation" (269).While Rastogi's syntax at the end of her sentence is subtle, we cansee that her argument is that The Holder of the World presents a viewthat immigrants alter mainstream American society as much asmainstream American society alters its immigrants. Your Final Essaywill explore your thoughts about this way of seeing the novel.

The Final Essay prompt asksyou to argueonesideof the position that American society is as dramatically alteredby immigrants as immigrants are altered by American society. Itthen asks you to use BharatiMukherjee's TheHolder of the World asyour main source of references.

The prompt also asks you toflesh out your argument with researched,cited, and referenced sources aboutthe novel andabout today's American society and culture.

In completeparagraphs and full sentences,write a 500-wordproposal of what events and topics in today's American society andculture you might use in your Final Essay to flesh out your positionon Pallavi Rastogi's thesis about Bharati Mukherjee's TheHolder of the World.

In your Final Essay, you willtie the research you do on current events and situations in Americansociety and culture to the events and perspectives presented in TheHolder of the World.

ONE (1) point ofthis entry's grade will be reserved for your use of at least TWO(2) in-textcitations (Links to an external site.)Links to an externalsite. of a quotation orparaphrase from the novel. Please distributeyour citations across the two questions sothat you have one citation per question.

ONE (1) point ofthis entry's grade will be reserved for a correctlyformatted WorksCited (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.