The book to review is The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. Write an essay of at least 7 pages (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font, with 1” margins)

The book to review is The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. Write an essay of at least 7 pages (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font, with 1” margins) that thoroughly addresses an approved prompt. Your paper should have a strong, defensible thesis and be based on a close engagement with the text(s), and you should cite passages by line number. If it is ever unclear which text you are citing, you should also include its title in that specific in-text citation. For instance, (318-21) or (Book of the Duchess 318-21).

Use of secondary sources is discouraged. Avoid generalizations and give your paper a snappy and meaningful title. Your paper should be free of all spelling, grammatical, and proofreading errors. Please seek help if you need it, whether from me or the Writing Center.

You may select one of the prewritten prompts below or you may suggest your own topic using relevant texts from the syllabus. If you wish to write your own prompt, you must have it approved by me, either over email or in-person. Your prompt should have similar scope to those suggested, but anything related to the course is within the realm of possibility. In any case, your final essay should feature a different text than your midterm essay did.

Each text we have read this semester features a “dreamer,” and it is this dreamer’s experiences that we see as readers over the course of the poem or novel. Craft an argument that explores the relationship between the “dreamer” of the text and the reader(s), as well as the implication(s) of this relationship on the meaning or interpretation of the text. For instance, you might consider how readers are expected to relate to the visions that the dreamer is seeing, or whether the readers are expected to learn from the dreamer or with the dreamer. That is, are readers expected to witness the visions of the dreamer, or experience the dreams alongside them? What do we know about the dreamer, and how does this influence our understanding of the text?