Write a 3-4 page essay that explores how American identity, American heroes, and American ideals form the baseline of the story’s aesthetics and function to achieve irony, even as he makes a point.

Texts presuppose an ideal reader, but real readers bring their own background, beliefs, fears, political ideology, and interpretative strategies to the text so each reader has a unique experience with the text (this is why you cannot assume your readers interpret the text in the same way you do so you must explain specific scenes … Read more