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The date should be formatted with the day first, then the month, and finally the year.  \nChristina Jones  \nDr. Kennedy  \nENGL 206  \nMLA Sample Paper  \nGeneral formatting note: the paper’s heading, title, and body text (including block quotes) should be written with 12 point Times New Roman font and be double spaced. The paper should also have 1.0”margins all around.  \nJones 1  \nThe paper’s header should include your lastname and the page number.  \n10 April 2021  \nDepicting Power: Landscapes of Anthills of the Savannah and The House of the Spirits  \nIn both Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, the landscape depicts more than just mere scenery. Both novels portray political power struggles among the native people after European colonization has ended, and both use the landscape to illustrate the effects that colonization has had on the people and politics in those territories; however, the landscape in each novel works to represent different aspects of political power. In Anthills of the Savannah, for instance, greenery and water illustrate power through wealth. In contrast, the landscape of The  \nThe title should be centered. There should be one double space between the title and the introduction paragraph, but there are no extra spaces. The title should not be bolded, underlined, or italicized.  \nHouse of the Spirits demonstrates the façade of the powerful—nothing is as it seems on the outside. Although there are differences in the symbolism of the landscape in both novels, Achebe and Allende effectively use the landscape to enhance the portrait that they paint of the power structures left behind by European colonization: Power only seeks to retain power, and all those who are not ofthe same class and means as the powerful, although ignored, will never go away.  \nIn Achebe’s fictional nation of Kagan, the intellectuals and powerful live among green grass and flowing water while the poor Abazonians live in dry, desert land without water. According to Paoi Hwang, the green landscape and abundance of water “[denote]  \nThe thesis of  \nthe paper should be a position or argument that will be developed and supported throughout  \nthe paper.  \nIf the name of the source’s author is used in the sentence before the quote, then only the page number is included  \nin the parentheses at the end of the quote.  \nJones 2  \nmodernization, development, and higher standards of living,” in Anthills (168) . At the building of the Council Chamber, for example, a “low hibiscus hedge outside the window and its many brilliant red bells stood still and unruffled”(Achebe 8) . Also at the presidential retreat, there is a “great shimmering expanse of the artificial lake waters [ . ..]”(67). The powerful elite are surrounded by plants and water, and, especially notable, an artificial water source. However, the home of the poor people of Abazon has no such luxuries; in fact, there is very little plant life or water:  \nThe only green things around now were the formidably spiked cactus serving the shelter around desolate clusters of huts and, once in a while in the dusty fields, a fat-bottomed baobab tree so strange in appearance that one could easily believe the story that elephants looking for water when they stilled roamed these parts would pierce the crusty bark of the baobab with their tusks such the juices stored in the years of rain by the tree inside its monumental bole. (194)  \nTheir terrain is barren and dusty. The elephants that at one time came to the region for water that was stored inside the tree have left because there is no more water. Yet, the Abazonians are still there. 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