Ill send the pages of the story only 8 pages to read, then analyze plot.
analyze the plot of "Guests of the Nation" in terms of its exposition, complication, crisis, falling action, and denoument.
This will be a short analytical paper, so what's being asked for is NOT a mere plot summary but a paper showing an awareness of how the plot elements relate to one another, or of how each grows out of, or is prepared for by, the one before it.
If you quote from the story, enclose any words from the story within quotation marks ("..."), give a parenthetical reference giving the author's last name and the page number from which you took the words; for example (O'Connor 53). Notice that if the reference falls at the end of a sentence, the period comes after the closing parenthesis.
If you use quotes, set up a Works Cited page at the end of the paper, and give a full Works Cited entry of this form, taken from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab:
Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.
For example: Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth, Heinemann, 2000, pp. 24-34.
Your task will be to include the same information, in the same format, about "Guests of the Nation," the story to be read for this assignment.
If you don't use quotes, do the exercise anyway as it will serve as a beginning review of (or perhaps an introduction to) the MLA documentation style you'll be using later this semester.