CHARACTER ANALYSIS OVER “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. RAY BRADBURYS “The Veldt”, Write a well-developed essay (about 800 to 1000 words or three to four pages) in which you analyze the main character. Suggested organization: The introduction paragraph begins with a brief discussion of relevant background about the author and the story, including a brief description of the plot, and ends with a thesis statement about how the character informs the theme of the story. This is your essay’s main claim. The body of the essay (three to six paragraphs) develops subclaims about the character and supplies supporting evidence from the details of the story. Finally, the conclusion paragraph sums up the discussion of character by relating it to the theme of the story.Include in your composition three to six short direct quotations from the short story that best illustrate your points about the character. Quotations must be followed by a parenthetical citation of the page number where the quotation is found in our textbook. Also include a complete Works Cited entry in MLA style for the author and short story as it appears in our literature textbook, following example 19, “Works in an Anthology,” on page 144 in the Little Seagull Handbook. No secondary sources are required for this assignment. In a literary analysis essay, the thesis is your main claim, and the topic sentences of each body paragraph are your supporting subclaims. Your essay should have an explicitly stated thesis as the last sentence of the introduction paragraph. Your essay should also have explicitly stated topic sentences as the first sentence of each body paragraph. The thesis statement should be explicitly related to the topic sentences, and all the topic sentences should be explicitly related to each other. Use transitional words and expressions where necessary to show relationships between the main and supporting ideas of your essay. Each body paragraph should begin with an explicitly stated topic sentence that presents one of the subclaims that will prove your thesis. The topic sentence is not just a statement of the topic of the paragraph, but a statement of a complete idea; it includes both the topic and your point about that topic in the same sentence. All the other sentences in the paragraph give details to support your topic sentence. The details include description, summary, paraphrase, and direct quotations from the story. The sentences are connected by transitions where necessary to show relationships between the ideas of each sentence within the paragraph. You should use the last name of the story’s author often in your sentences, to distinguish between your own ideas and the ideas from the story.
Avoid starting your body paragraphs with a sentence that seems like a detail of the story. Each body paragraph should begin with a subclaim about an element of the story, followed up by supporting examples and details from the story. Each body paragraph should end with a concluding sentence to point out how the subclaim contributes to your thesis.All the words and ideas in your essay are assumed to be originally your own. If you write about the ideas and quote the words of other writers, MLA style requires that you cite them with the name of the author and the page number where the words or ideas are published. You can cite the original author’s name and the page number in two ways. One way is to use the author’s name in your sentence to introduce the idea or the quoted words and giving the page number in parenthesis at the end of your sentence. The other way is to give both the author’s last name and the page number in parenthesis at the end of your sentence.
For this assignment, you are discussing only one author. You will use the full name in your introduction, so you will need to use the author’s last name only throughout the remainder of your essay. As you discuss the short story, you should use the author’s name often to distinguish between your own analytical statements about the story, on one hand, and your description, summary, paraphrase, or quotation of the original author’s words, on the other hand.
In this essay assignment, since you are going to be using the author’s name frequently in your sentences, your direct quotations of the author’s words are the only information you need to cite with parenthetical information at the end of your sentence. The only information necessary is the page number. (When using MLA style, do not include the word “page” or its abbreviation in the parenthetical in-text citation because any number by itself is assumed to be a page number.)
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