MJC 8 Suggestion 2026 Set-5 Bankura University

on

 

MJC 8 Suggestion 2026 Set-5

Course: American Literature (Set 5)

Time: 2 Hours Total Marks: 40

Instructions: Answers must strictly follow the choices and mark allocations specified below. Write clearly and concisely.

Section A (From Unit I)

Answer any 1 out of 4 (1 × 10 = 10 Marks)
  1. Examine the narrative voice of Huckleberry Finn. How does Mark Twain use an uneducated child as a first-person narrator to deliver sophisticated social commentary?
  2. Discuss how Santiago’s connection to the natural world explores themes of human dignity and ecological kinship in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
  3. "Nature is completely indifferent to human struggle." Analyze this statement with respect to Stephen Crane's portrayal of the battlefield landscape in The Red Badge of Courage.
  4. Compare the role of mentor figures in Unit I by evaluating how older generations influence younger characters in either Twain's or Hemingway's novels.

Section B (From Unit II)

Answer any 1 out of 2 (1 × 10 = 10 Marks)
  1. Critically analyze how Ralph Waldo Emerson redefines the concept of "books" as tools for inspiration rather than dogmatic chains in The American Scholar.
  2. Explore how William Faulkner builds an atmosphere of claustrophobia and impending doom using temporal and environmental imagery in 'Dry September'.

Section C (From Unit III)

Answer any 2 out of 4 (2 × 5 = 10 Marks)

Write short notes on any two of the following Background Readings:

  1. The intersection of race, double consciousness, and urbanity in the Harlem Renaissance.
  2. How Black Women's Writings historically challenged both white feminist structures and Black patriarchal dynamics.
  3. The critique of class stratification and urbanization in Social Realism and the American Novel.
  4. The role of material disillusionment in redefining the parameters of The American Dream.

Section D (From Units I & II)

Answer any 5 out of 10 (5 × 2 = 10 Marks)

Answer the following short-answer questions in 2-3 sentences each:

  1. What does the "wrecked steamboat" symbolize in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
  2. What is the function of the baseball talk (specifically Joe DiMaggio) in The Old Man and the Sea?
  3. How does Henry Fleming change his view of his own wound by the middle of The Red Badge of Courage?
  4. What does Emerson identify as the primary "danger of the scholar's office"?
  5. What is the primary motivation driving John McLendon's actions in 'Dry September'?
  6. Identify the main shift in emotional tone between the first and final stanzas of Whitman's 'O Captain, My Captain'.
  7. In lines 1-68 of 'Passage to India', what role does the poet play relative to the engineer?
  8. Briefly clarify how Minnie Cooper’s social status in the small town influences the narrative conflict in Faulkner’s story.
  9. How does the ending of The Old Man and the Sea emphasize hope despite physical loss?
  10. What is the significance of the phrase "the past, the infinite greatness of the past" in Whitman's 'Passage to India'?

Comments

Post a Comment