English essay – “Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,” wrote Thomas Pynchon

English essay – “Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,” wrote Thomas Pynchon

Type of document       Essay

2 Pages Single Spaced

Subject area      English Literature

Academic Level           High School

Style    MLA

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“Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,” wrote Thomas Pynchon. Time Kreider, in a New York Times essay, continues Pynchon’s thought: “Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a voice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space that quiet and idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting on with one’s life.

respond to the following in a pursuassive essay, refer to two texts, the novels are The Kite Runner by Khalid Housseini and Mister Pip by Lloyd James. use a proper essay structure, make sure that in the opening paragraph thesis is provided, name of texts and identify how you will tackle the thesis. although this is a persuassive this in not about your own opininion as much as it about the two texts you choose ilustrate the validity or not of the statement above.

10 marks for essay plan

25 marks content/idea

5 marks orginization

5 marks writing style

5 marks language convention

Explain whether the statement above is more of a postmodernist, modernist or existentialist. identify two characters from the two texts that are told, (the kite runner and mister pip) that might have said this( above statement) and believed or who might have disagreed with this, even vehemently.