{"id":13807,"date":"2023-04-13T02:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T02:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-house-for-m-biswas-mentions-clowns-fools-such-aspunchpopular-british-clown-the-protagonist-been-described-by-asmimic-manclownish-figure-born-of-interaction-between-colonizer-colonized-what-doe\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T02:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T02:04:29","slug":"a-house-for-m-biswas-mentions-clowns-fools-such-aspunchpopular-british-clown-the-protagonist-been-described-by-asmimic-manclownish-figure-born-of-interaction-between-colonizer-colonized-what-doe","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-house-for-m-biswas-mentions-clowns-fools-such-aspunchpopular-british-clown-the-protagonist-been-described-by-asmimic-manclownish-figure-born-of-interaction-between-colonizer-colonized-what-doe\/","title":{"rendered":"A House for M. Biswas mentions clowns\/fools such as&#8221;Punch&#8221;popular British clown.The protagonist been described by as&#8221;mimic man&#8221;clownish figure born of interaction between colonizer-colonized. What does the book suggest through the clown\/fool\/mimic man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Full topic (wouldbt fit above) V. S. Naipaul\u2019s A House for M. Biswas is rife with mentions of clowns and fools such as &#8220;Punch,&#8221; the popular British clown. Also, the protagonist has been described by critics as a &#8220;mimic man,&#8221; a clownish cultural figure who was born out of the interaction between the colonizer and the colonized. What important point does the novel suggest through the figure of the clown \/fool \/ the mimic man?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; one of the sources has to be the novel A House For Mr. Biswas itself as the primary source with embedded quotes<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Close-reading requirement: demonstrate ability to closely engage literary devices<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Source requirement: use at least four credible secondary sources to complement your own argument, including at least two scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Citation requirement: demonstrate ability to cite all sources correctly according to the MLA style<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Ratio between your own ideas vs. borrowed ideas: the majority (60%-70%) of the finished essay should consist of your own arguments and analysis of the literary text<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Avoid using &#8220;pure&#8221; psychology, sociology, or political science sources<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Do not use Wikipedia or other similar anonymous and &#8220;free&#8221; internet sources<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Writing for the professor and classmates who have read the same literary text(s) and expect to be convinced that your reading is reasonable and well-supported<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; please make this good it is due tom and worth too much for me to mess up \ud83d\ude41<\/div>\n<div>2 of the secondary sources that must be used in the essay I have attached pdfs of!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full topic (wouldbt fit above) V. S. Naipaul\u2019s A House for M. Biswas is rife with mentions of clowns and fools such as &#8220;Punch,&#8221; the popular British clown. Also, the protagonist has been described by critics as a &#8220;mimic man,&#8221; a clownish cultural figure who was born out of the interaction between the colonizer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/13807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}