Your task for this essay is to create a document that responds to Amitav Ghosh's novel, Sea of Poppies. Just like with Rizal, the main goal here is to analyze or interpret some aspect of the novel within a context of your choice.
One way of doing this would be to consider something that literary scholar Fredric Jameson wrote (Links to an external site.): "Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." Consider replacing capitalism with a word of your choosing. Sea of Poppies takes up many of the problems of our own world, but locates them in the past. What does the novel tell us about the persistence of inequality? Why is it so hard to imagine the end of sexism, or the end of empire? This is just a suggestion to spur your thinking. If it's getting in the way, ignore it.
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