Essay on Yeats Neruda García Márquez El Saadawi Al-Shaykh readings and etcOnly readings listed on the syllabus by these authors are eligible for the exam: Yeats Neruda García Márquez El Saadawi Al-Shaykh Hua Szymborska Pamuk and Adichie. While you have your choice of texts from the last three weeks of the course to use in this exam at least ONE text you discuss has to come from the Week #9 readings (Szymborska Pamuk or Adichie). As many of you are not English majors there is always an argument to be had as to whether courses like this are worthwhile if you are not necessary reading literary texts in your day to day work. In this last exam using texts from the last three weeks of the course I want you to construct your answer to the question: Is reading world literature worthwhile? You won’t hurt my feelings or jeopardize your grade with a “no” answer as long as you take the time to properly explain and support your position (which is what this exam is truly testing you on anyway—your use of argument and evidence). In your response you need to use at least three specific examples from assigned texts in the final three weeks in the course (and you cannot use two poems by Yeats or two stories by Hua for example and count them as two of your three examples—you must use works by at least three different writers). Is reading world literature worthwhile? Why or why not? Or are some texts worth reading and others not so much? You can split your answer as well and say that there is some benefit and some lack of benefit. Your essay response must be a minimum of 750 words (there is no maximum but try to avoid writing a book). This exam should be entirely your own argument and you are not allowed to use any secondary material in this exam (there should be no citing of course notes an author’s biography etc.—if I see any material like that particularly without citations you will lose points for not following the exam instructions). Your only source for the exam should be the assigned reading themselves. As long as you stick to using the assigned versions of the texts (as linked or attached in Canvas) there is no need for citations. If I see any other versions of the texts (although I have no idea why you would use something other than what was provided) you will need to have citations to identify those versions as there can be differences in translation etc. that I will need to know about.