For Essay One, you will select one of the following stories (see the list below) and write a 3-4 page paper–a full three pages–in which you make an argument about one of the following components:
characterization
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point of view
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setting,
symbol
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theme (see purple note below).
Be sure that your argument (I. e. claim or thesis statement) is one sentence and is located that the end of your introductory paragraph.
And remember a claim is a statement that another reader might dispute; a claim is a statement that you must prove with evidence from the textual.
Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” (1908)
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John Updike’s “A & P” (1961)
John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” 1938
Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” 1884
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Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Man’s Path” 1953
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Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” 1953
Theme: Be sure not to confuse the “theme” with the “topic”!!!:
Example:
Topic: Loneliness of the human experiment
Theme: This story demonstrates that the loneliness of the human experiment can be overcome by small acts of kindness.
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