ENGL 212 XB1
Literary Analysis Paper Assignment
For this paper, you can focus on:
OPTION ONE: ONE MAJOR TEXT
OPTION TWO: TWO MAJOR TEXTS
OPTION THREE: ONE MAJOR TEXT AND ONE FAIRY TALE
Choose one of the subjects below and discuss how you understand a THEME that emerges from the subject in any of the text options listed above.
Family
Bravery
Friends
Mentors
Bravery
Obstacles
Secrets
Other subject and theme of your choice approved by instructor
You must develop an analytical thesis (not merely a statement of fact) which you will then explain, discuss, and support in your paper with citations (quotations) from the text to illustrate and “show” your impressions and ideas.
So, let’s say you’re interested in the subject of “family.” Your question is what does my text or texts “say” about family? What is important? This analysis informs your thesis statement. If you choose two texts to discuss, it is because you think the texts “say” something very familiar about your subject and you want to discuss how you see this working together. Or maybe you think your texts say totally opposite ideas about your subject and you wish to contrast them.
Your paper will be a minimum of 1000 words, double-spaced Times New Roman with MLA in text citations and Works Cited page. You are only required to cite the text(s) but you may include scholarly research from the MLA database if you wish.
You must include a minimum of four citations, chosen as the best possible support for your “evidence,” not for plot exposition or context. You can include more.
With literary analysis, you assume the readers of your analysis are very familiar with the text. You do not include any summary, exposition, or context except for what is absolutely necessary to establish your points.
You do not “drive through” the text chronologically and “point out” your analysis as you go. No, you organize around your thesis statement and choose citations that best illustrate what you mean in your thesis. Just like an argumentative paper, you make decisions about what best works as “evidence” and “support” for your overall main idea. You are discussing only the parts of the text that inform your thesis.
All of your work so far in this class has been analytical. You just keep doing what you have been doing, but now you sustain the discussion a little longer and slow down, taking the time to explain how the theme unfolds and what about it lends so much meaning to the text.
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