The Nickel Boys vs. Roxane Gay's Book Club Synthesis Essay PROMPT Over the course of reading the novel, we will watch and take notes on several clips from the discussion that Roxane Gay's book club has on The Nickel Boys. Your job will be to find one point of view in the video that you would like to challenge or complicate. For instance, Roxane Gay expresses her frustration at a lack of well-developed female characters in the book. You may challenge this idea by using one or several female characters from the novel to illustrate the opposite argument, or you may complicate this idea by arguing that the book contains one round female character as a \"token\" and dismisses the rest as unimportant. As we watch the clips from Roxane Gay's book club, you should be taking notes. As we discuss the clips after viewing, there will be notes on our discussion. Those notes, including spellings of each member's names, are available to you M. You will likely need to watch the video of Roxane Gay's book club's discussion in full after reading the novel. The full discussion is located here. YOUR ESSAY MUST CONTAIN: o A thesis statement that makes an arguable claim 0 Evidence from both the video and the novel 0 You may use a combination of direct quotes and paraphrases from these sources 0 To pull direct quotes from the video, consider turning on the closed captioning to help you 0 You must use new evidence from the book that has not been used in the video discussion 0 Each paragraph must use at leastmsmpievidenceimmeasbmme o A thorough introduction paragraph and a conclusion 0 For this assignment, include a Works Cited page. This must be MLA formatted (see template, attached) F RMAT H LD BE: a. MLA formatted: 0 Times New Roman size 12 font double spaced 1\" margins Contains an appropriate and thoughtful title Need more help with format? Go to httg:[{www.mla.orggstyle b. The essay need not be longer than 5 paragraphs, so think about having 3 body paragraphs for this one