Please write a practice 40 minute open ended essay on the following prompt:
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.
Be sure to focus on analytical topic sentences, causal connections and PLOT REFERENCES!
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