In Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng explores the detrimental effects of white supremacy and patriarchy through the narrative of the Lee family. In a well-organized essay of 4-5 pages, make an argument about how members of the Lee family experience and navigate the assumptions and expectations placed on them by racist and sexist ideologies. How have they internalized racism and sexism, and how do they challenge these power structures?
Your paper should offer an original, argumentative thesis statement that directly answers the question posed in the prompt above, and develop that argument using specific evidence from the text. In other words, your paper should be grounded in close analysis of key passages and scenes from the novel with attention to both thematic content and formal literary elements (language, character, plot, setting, symbolism, point of view, etc.). Your paper will be graded on the strength of your argument, your engagement with the text through close readings, and the clarity and organization of your writing.
