Rifles for Watie Papers & Assignment Topics

Essay Topics/Writing Assignments

These 20 essay questions can be used as essay questions on a test, or as stand-alone essay topics for a take-home or in-class writing assignment. Students should have a full understanding of the text in order to answer these questions. They ask for a thorough analysis of the text.

1. In the beginning of the story Jeff, David Gardner and John Chadwick all leave together to go to war.
Part 1) Compare these three characters at the beginning of the story.
Part 2) From what is seen of these characters, explain what changes have occurred for each one over the course of the war.

2. Part 1) Describe Lucy's personality.
Part 2) What does it reveal about Lucy that she is willing to marry Jeff even though they have different views on the war.

3. Part 1) Explain the role that Clardy...
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