1. 毕业设计（论文）主要内容：

Richard Wright, as one of the AfricanAmerican writers, shows a young African American's struggle in his classicshort story The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Irritated by the unfairtreatment, the protagonist Dave decides to prove his maturity and win respectby possessing a gun. However, after causing the death of Jenny, a mule, Dave wantsto shirk his responsibility by lying. The incident has actually showed Dave's failureof access to maturity. The paper tries to explore Dave’s struggle as well as hisfutile effort to be a responsible adult in the background of racism.

2. 毕业设计（论文）主要任务及要求

1. Search online and choose the novel to work on

2. search for the related resources to identify the topic for the paper.

3. read the original novel and work out the outline.

4. write the paper on schedule.

5. The paper should give an elaborate and exhaustive research on the given topic with independent work.

3. 毕业设计（论文）完成任务的计划与安排

Before 15th, January settlement of the title

before 25th, February submission of the outline

before 25th, April submission of the first draft

before 24th, May revision of the draft

before 30th, May, submission of the final pape

4. 主要参考文献

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_man_who_was_almost_a_man#cite_ref-7.

[2]john e. loftis. "domestic prey:richard wright's parody of the hunt tradition in "the man who was almost aman." tripod.com. ebsco publishing,2002.

[3]junior c. ""the man who wasalmost a man" by richard wright". teenink.com.