Assessment Checklist
You should:
1) Choose one of the two topics listed below.
2) Engage with relevant themes and ideas from the lectures and tutorial
discussions.
3) Cite your sources by employing either Harvard, MLA, or Chicago
documentation style. Additional research, beyond the relevant chapter from
Bennett and Royle, is not required but optional. If you do undertake additional
research, this could include further readings suggested at the end of the weekly
lecture slides (you can obtain several of these through the “Readings and
Resources” section of vUWS) or scholarly research of your own. If you quote
from a lecture verbatim or paraphrase substantial passages from a lecture,
then you must cite it.
4) Organize the analysis around a central argument or “thesis” and provide
textual evidence to support its claims.
5) Employ an appropriate writing style with minimal spelling, grammatical, or
other errors.
Topic 1
“Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You
know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are
still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not
just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating
around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the picture
of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened” (43).
“As long as the ghost showed out from its ghostly place shaking stuff, crying, smashing and
such—Ella respected it. But if it took flesh and came in her world, well, the shoe was on the
other foot. She didn’t mind a little communication between the two worlds, but this was an
invasion” (302).
Engaging with relevant ideas from the “Racial Difference” chapter, as well as either
“Ghosts” or “The Uncanny” in Bennett and Royle, answer the following question: How
does Morrison’s representation of the ghost in Beloved challenge racial
hierarchies?