Brainly User 04/30/2023 English College answered Essay , Length: 5-7 Pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Formatting: MLA (Title page information in left corner, entire paper double spaced, one-inch margins, one-half inch indentations, appropriate lead-in signal statements, in-text and works cited page citations, size 12 Times New Roman or Cambria font. Neither a cover page nor a works cited count toward the minimum page requirements. Number of Sources: As I Lay Dying, The Love of a Good Woman, OR Goodbye, Columbus and one other novel from the class, plus at least three other appropriate sources Plagiarism: Review MLA format so that you don't plagiarize. Writing Style: Scholarly -- no informal second-person pronoun you or first-person pronoun I, me, etc.; no abbreviations; no contractions; no informal word choices; no sentence fragments, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic: When we study literature, we make connections not only with other books but also the world we live in - and the world inhabited by the people who came before us. As I Lay Dying, The Love of a Good Woman, and Goodbye, Columbus are considered modern, tour-de-force stories that have helped lay the groundwork for a number of books and novels that have come after them. Individual and collective action, love and betrayal, belonging to a group or not, these ideas float through all of these novels. We also see the arc of movement from rural to urban to suburban settings, which is really the story of the 20th century.