SECOND WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT TOPIC

ON DARKNESS AT NOON
Write an essay of two double-spaced typed pages (one inch margins, any 12 pitch font) based on the following questions:

Why do you think that the state insists that the people they are persecuting confess? Why don?t they just kill them, or forge their signatures to confessions? Why does Rubashov himself confess?

BE SURE TO INCLUDE CONCRETE EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT, INCLUDING A FEW QUOTES (INCLUDE PAGE NUMBERS IN PARENTHESIS)