Write a short essay (750 words) (need book named Backpack LiteratureISBN:9780134756790)

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Chapter 9 Stories

This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Sherman Alexie

Greasy Lake, T. Coraghessan Boyle

A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury

The Story of An Hour, Kate Chopin

How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman

Young Goodman Brown, Nathanial Hawthonre

Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston

Araby, James Joyce

Before the Law, Franz Kafka

Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfiled

Everyday Use, Alice Walker

A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf

Assignment: Write a short essay (750 words) that defends a thesis you developed through a close critical reading/analysis of one (or two) literary works listed in Chapter 9 Stories For Further Reading beginning on page 318 of your Backpack Literature textbook. The “critical response” essay relies on textual support from the primary text (secondary sources are not required) – not plot summary to develop the student’s argument. Do not confuse “critical analysis” with “plot summary”; the goal is to develop, sustain, and advance a thesis based on a critique of the primary text.

What you’ll be graded upon:

15% Introduction: You establish a context for the significance of your thesis in regard to the literary work as a whole. How does your argument contribute to understanding the author’s major literary/thematic concerns? What can other readers learn from your analysis?

15% Thesis: You state your main point (or argument) in 1-2 sentences; the thesis is the culmination of your introduction.

30% Organization: Your essay should follow that of a typical literary critique:

Since your focus must be on analyzing some literary motif, theme, or a combination of literary elements (such as symbolism, character, setting, etc.), your essay must contain well-structured supporting paragraphs that contain a topic sentence, quotes from the primary text (secondary sources are not required), an explanation/discussion of the significance of the quotes you use in relation to your thesis, and a concluding sentence or two that situates the entire paragraph in relation to the thesis. Your thesis will focus on some kind of critical analysis of the primary text, so your supporting paragraphs should be organized around each of the quotes you use, explaining the significance of the quotes and why (or how) they illustrate your main point, but you also need to make sure that your paragraphs contain strong transitions and at least six (or more) sentences.

10% Conclusion: Regardless of the argument you make, you want a conclusion