1. Throughout the novel Jack seems to have been telling Willie Stark's story, but in the end the reader learns that the story equally belongs to Jack. Retrace the events in the novel to show how Jack changes more than Willie.
2. Robert Penn Warren claims that he never researched the facts about Huey Long's life but that he lived the legend of Huey Long when he taught at Louisiana State University. Research Long's career and compare the facts to the events of the novel.
3. While studying for his master's degree at the University of California, Warren became ardently interested in Jacobean drama—the product of an age that marked the rise of cynicism in European thought. Research the characteristics of Jacobean drama, and show how All.....
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