What historical influences (such as segregation) helped to shape the content of the work?

Directions for the essay overall:
Write a title.
Use Times New Roman 12 pt. font.
Double-space your essay.
Each paragraph has 4-8 sentences.
Write five paragraphs.
Spell all words correctly.
Use proper punctuation.
Use proper grammar.
Include as many details as possible and as much information as possible from the novel and your research by writing properly punctuated compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Give evidence from the novel.
Don’t summarize the novel.
If you ask a question in the hook, answer it in your essay. Don’t use the assignment (the question you selected above) as a hook. Come up with your own question.
Follow the directions in the attached document and the following link: https://www.slideshare.net/mumarialuisa/paragraph-writing-11505878.

Choose at least one of the following words and use it correctly in your essay:
1. demonstrate
2. indicate
3. in that

Do research. Use the following sources:
1. At least one website other than Wikipedia
2. Any of the Commonlit articles I assign related to the subject
3. You decide whether you use Wikipedia articles or not in addition to those sources.

Write a Works Cited page and include the appropriate citations.

Instructions for citing sources in MLA format
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

These links can all be found on the left of the page in the first link below.

Electronic sources continued: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_electronic_sources.html (scroll down)
In-text citations: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html
Quotations:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_quotations.html
Sample works cited page: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_works_cited_page.html
Sample paper:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html