Imagine that you are having dinner with James Olney (who died in 2015, by the way), and the dinner topic was Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Knowing his arguments about the slave narrative, you either agree, disagree, or do a little of both regarding his claims about the slave narrative genre. Write a dialogue between you and Olney. This activity encourages critical thinking, active learning, and creativity.