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Is the writer trying to entertain or to educate? If you think the writer does both, how does the writer use entertainment to educate? And how does each writer anticipate and work with the communicative needs and expectations of his or her audiences to achieve that purpose? To explore this question, be sure to find out when and how a particular work was first published or performed, and what else was going on at the time.

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

Question First, present background information from your research and explain how that information answered one of your research questions. Try to use a short quotation from your research and show us how it helps you synthesize for your findings. Be sure to use a signal phrase and transition back to your analysis to connect the quoted material with your analysis. Try your best to punctuate the integrated quotation correctly, and provide both citations and references.

Question Second, evaluate at least one claim made by your source about the writer or the writer's work, and tell us how valid you find the claim. What evidence did the source use to support its claim? Is the evidence appropriate? How does it support the analysis?