Falling Toward Apotheosis

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This paper chronicles the journeys of self-discovery taken by the title books' protagonists and their different approaches to them. Touched-on, is whether the illumination gained is worth the price paid, and whether the ends of discovery justify the means taken to discover.

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"Self-discovery is often an important theme in western literature. There is something about watching characters figure out the workings of their souls through a torturous story that appeals to readers who perhaps wish they knew their own inner needs as well as the characters they read about know theirs. African-American literature in particular deals with the issue of self-discovery or, more correctly, self-revelation. W.E.B. DuBoise spoke of the double-consciousness of the Negro, and all of the books read this semester have focused, in one way or another, on penetrating into the double-consciousness and releasing the caged portion of it, the portion that society never gets to see the portion that is the most human. "

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