To an interviewer’s question about the audience that Gaines hoped to reach, the author responded, "I write for the African-American youth in the country, especially the South, so that they can know who they are and where they came from and take pride in it…. [And for] the white youth of this country, and especially the South, because unless he knows his neighbor of three hundred years, he only knows half his history."
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis.The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving their...
