2011 FRQ #3

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In a novel by William Styron, a father tells his son that life “is a search for justice.”

Choose a character from a novel or play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character’s understanding of justice, the degree to which the character’s search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole.

You may choose a work from the list below or another work of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize

the plot.

All the King’s Men

All the Pretty Horses

Antigone

Atonement

Beloved

The Blind Assassin

The Bonesetter’s Daughter

Crime and Punishment

A Gathering of Old Men

The God of Small Things

The Grapes of Wrath

Invisible Man

King Lear

A Lesson Before Dying

Light in August

Medea 

The Merchant of Venice

Murder in the Cathedral

Native Son

No Country for Old Men

Oedipus Rex

The Poisonwood Bible

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Set This House on Fire

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

The Stranger

Things Fall Apart

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Splendid Suns

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Trial