Prompt
Reference:
Any story(ies) on the revised syllabus that we’ve read this semester. (Note: this does not include the stories by Tobias Wolff.)
For this essay, your job is to write thesis driven essay that responds to one of these prompts.
Stories often depict characters caught between colliding cultures — national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character’s sense of identity into question. Select two stories in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well-organized compare contrast essay in which you describe the characters’ response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole.
From two stories, choose a character (not necessarily the protagonist) whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. Then, in a well-organized compare contrast essay, identify each of the two conflicting forces and explain how this conflict as experienced by the characters illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
When we come to the end of a short story, Poe writes that the story should produce a single unifying effect. Using one short story from those referenced above, discuss how the author has utilized the single unifying effect in order to explicate the stories conflict.
Due Date
Th 5/7/2015 6pm 30% of Final Grade
Since this is the final essay and final grades are due shortly after the essay is due, late essays will earn a zero grade.
Due date on prompt supersedes due date on syllabus.
Final version must be submitted to Canvas, only.
Please reference which prompt you are responding to in the upper left hand corner of the first page header
Bring a printed paper with your to class
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Length and Format
4-6 word-processed pages.
MLA-style format for short papers.
Use Times New Roman 12-point font (double spaced).
No more than 6 quotes. Do not use quotes longer than four lines of text.
No external research.
Do not over summarize.
Sources incorporated into the text must be done with proper MLA In-text Citations.
Rhetorical Category
Compare contrast essay in academic style or persuasive essay in academic style.
Purpose:
To shape and develop a clear, coherent essay in answer to the assignment prompt.
Evaluate the power of literature to address personal values and goals and to challenge human endeavors.
Demonstrate critical and independent thinking in the interpretation of texts.
Demonstrate an understanding of ways the literature studied reflects its intellectual, social, historical, and cultural contexts.
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