“The Struggle for Equality: Examining Character, Conflict, and Social Inequality in ‘The Scholarship Jacket’”

Attached below is the character handout you will use to help you write your character paragraph when you write your essay on the Scholarship Jacket
Character:
The
main character is the character around which the story revolves and who
has the main conflict in the story. Describe and analyze this character
by choosing qualities of the character that illustrate or support the main idea. Choose examples of what the character says, does, thinks or what others say or think about the character (see handout) that illustrate the central idea. Choose at least 4 elements from the character handout (see below) to discuss about the main character and have a quote from the story to support each point you make about the character. Any comment made about the main character should illustrate or support the central idea.
Supporting
characters give information about the main character. Briefly describe (2-3 sentences) one or two supporting character and tell what each represents or symbolizes in the story. What is each supporting character’ s function or purpose in the story?
Discuss conflict in the story: the type of conflict. Provide examples to support your notion.
Discuss
social class, race or place in society as it pertains to the story. Provide examples from text. Make a connection with current events of the
story,
Discuss a time in your life when you felt that you or someone you knew was  treated unfairly. Discuss the event (100 words.)
Discuss how it made you feel and lesson learned.  (100 words)
Paragraph 1 (100 words) Summary and central idea
Paragraph 2 (100-200 words) Character
Paragraph 3 (100-200) Conflict
Paragraph 4 Social Class, Race, or place in society (100-200)
Paragraph 5
A personal circumstance (200 words)
600-800 words