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Essay on Identity Directions: In a typed essay of 750 words, write a coherent response to one of the following questions.

Your essay should have an introduction, a thesis statement, body paragraphs and a conclusion. It should refer to and analyze specific passages from the texts.

Essay Questions: Choose only one to write about.

A. Discuss My Middle Kingdom and Coming Home Again in terms of the concepts of identity and conflict. Use specific examples from the text, with page numbers, to support your ideas.

B. Explain the significance of the title My Middle Kingdom. What are the underlying psychological or emotional reasons that may have led to Su writing this memoir? Use specific examples from the text, with page numbers, to support your ideas.

C. Compare/contrast the motif of cooking in My Middle Kingdom and Coming Home Again and its personal significance to the authors, Adrienne Su and ChangRae Lee. Use supporting examples from the text with page numbers.

D. Discuss the issue of self-defined vs. other-defined cultural identity in relation to the essays Green Card Lottery and Moro Like Me. Use specific examples from the text, with page numbers, to support your ideas.

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