Title: Exploring Threads and Connections in Jesus’s Son and “A Conversation on Ralph Steadman and His Book, America”

Part 1: Thread Describe a thread that you see in Jesus’s Son. This could build on what you wrote about in the Week 5 Discussion or it could be different. Make use of paraphrase and step into 2-3 quotations to help illustrate the thread. Look for accrual throughout multiple stories and provide the names of the stories that you reference.
Suggested length: 2-3 paragraphs.
Part 2: Moderate Step into a short quotation from “A Conversation on Ralph Steadman and His Book, America, with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” that relates to your thread. Step out by moderating how it connects to what you said in Part 1. What does this new quotation allow you to say about Jesus’ Son that you could not say otherwise?
Suggested length: 1-2 paragraphs.
Part 3: Synthesis Proposal Outline your ideas for your own Synthesis Essay, addressing the following questions. Suggested length: 2-3 paragraphs.
What are your two texts? Include the full titles and authors’ names.
What is the relationship between these two texts? How are they connected? Where do they intersect?
What are you trying to say with both of these texts that you can’t say just as easily with either one on its own?
Step into and out of one quotation from each text that exhibits an aspect of the relationship between them.
What is the direction that your synthesis will take from here? What you think or hope can be gained from doing this synthesis?

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