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Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build their literary analysis skills by requiring textual references throughout the essay.
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Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the below bulleted outlines. Cite details from the text over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. For King, the concepts of Citizenship and Identity are not synonymous.
2. Pride is a characteristic that runs in the narrator’s family.
3. While King’s story primarily follows the narrator, his mother, and his sister, there is a separate collective force of The Outside World.
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