Critical Lens Essay

Choose one of the topics/quotes below and write a critical lens essay comparing The Color of Water and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Identity:

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

― John Dewey

Parenting:

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

― Mark Twain

Education:

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

― Aristotle