Please upload your paper to Canvas Examine the ways are people robbed of humanity through alienation in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and “Life in the Iron Mills.” For example, both Hugh Wolfe and Frederick Douglass are presented as victims of a harsh, uncaring system. 2. Discuss the setting of “Life in the Iron Mills” in relation to Benito Cereno What role does setting play in the development of subject and thematic material? 3. Authors routinely use a variety of strategies to appeal to their reading audience. Discuss the use of emotion, logic, or other tactics in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and either Benito Cereno or “Life in the Iron Mills.” 4. Examine the ways individuals are isolated from their communities (and the consequences of that isolation) in “Life in the Iron Mills” and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. 5. Discuss the ways the work of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville were culturally informed and engaged, not culturally isolated. 6. In what ways do Benito Cereno and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass address the issue of what it means to be an American? How does this literature help create conceptions of the American experience and American identity? 7. What assumptions about Americans and the nation itself have been created, challenged, and re-imagined in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and either Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or Benito Cereno? 8. In 1845, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained “How slowly our literature grows up!” Discuss the ways Herman Melville and either Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs sought to expand the limitations of their chosen form. Your writing is a crucial element of your success in this course. Please choose one of these prompts for the final paper. Your paper should be typed double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Your paper should contain approximately 1,500-2,000 words. You should pay particular attention to both form and content in an effort to write a thoughtfully conceived, well-constructed essay that clearly states a thesis and makes analytically specific, non-summarizing reference to the texts you are discussing.