Written Assignment
1) Choose 5 of the readings and, using 5 main characters’ goals, actions, and social mores, discuss everything you learned about middle eastern culture by careful examination of these characters. Remember, we read literature to learn about the place, the people, and the time in which they lived. You need to extrapolate from the readings. What was important to these people? How does literature advance our knowledge about the people who read it? Be sure to use quotes to support your position