Choose one of the following topics as the basis for your final essay. The essay should be 5 pages long, 12 point font, double spaced. Make sure to include a strong thesis statement within the beginning of your paper and provide at least 4 supporting evidence from the text. Please follow MLA format. Turnitin Score must be <15%. No use of AI please. In the section we read from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the protagonist provides a direct quotation from Booker T. Washington in his speech? Why do you think he does this? What, if anything, does it symbolize? In the Battle Royal scene from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the boxers are blindfolded. What do you think the blindfolds symbolize? In Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool,” the poet portrays life in Chicago. What exactly do you think Brooks is trying to say about life in Chicago? Why do you think she does this? You might want to compare Brooks's poem to other poems we have read in class. James Baldwin mentions several different kinds of music in his short story “Sonny’s Blues,” but he places an emphasis on blues music in the story’s title. Why do you think he named the story “Sonny’s Blues”? Do you think blues music plays a more important role in the story than other forms of music like jazz? If so, how and why? Lorraine Hansberry named her play “A Raisin in the Sun” after a line from Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” poem. Why do you think she did that? What is the significance of the reference to Hughes’s poem in Hansberry’s play? Please provide examples.