Midterm Essay

I was really interested in the trickster discussion we had in last class, so for my essay prompt I think I would like to work with prompt 8 and examine the roll of trickery and the trickster in The Passing of Grandison and An Antebellum' Sermon. What I would really like to cover is how the reader's perspective changes as the trickster presents themselves more throughout a text because that is what I found most interesting. I also found it interesting that when a story with a trickster begins usually the character(s) that hold power over the trickster think that their field of knowledge encompasses that of the trickster’s, however as the story progresses you learn that it is the other way around for if the trickster is to be truly successful  he has to know much about those in power.  I’m thinking maybe my thesis will be something like, “For the trickster to be truly successful, he must first be intimately familiar with his opponent.”