The man who shot liberty valance short story pdf

American Literature II Western Paper Guidelines

Your paper on the Western is due November 14.

Length: minimum of 4 pages; maximum 8 pages.

Format: double-spaced, 12-point font, MLA in-text citations and Works Cited (The Works Cited does not count as one of the four body pages of your paper.)

Sources: primary texts and at least two (2) secondary sources (Websites will not be accepted as sources for this paper. Use sources from the ACC Library's databases.)

Submission: Papers will be uploaded to the SafeAssign tool on Blackboard, so they must be in an editable document (Microsoft Word) or PDF format. Links to online document sites will not upload.

Choose one of the following topics:

Compare the elements of fiction Dorothy Johnson uses to develop the theme/central idea in her short story, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” with the elements of filmmaking (mise-en-scène) John Ford uses to develop the theme in his film adaptation of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. What elements emphasized by Johnson are treated differently by Ford, and how does this change the theme or central idea of the basic story concept?

John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses both explore a number of the antinomies that Jim Kitses enumerated in Horizons West. Compare/contrast how one or more of the Westerns we have studied work to develop this conflict in their plots. Do the works seem to take a side? What things do they associate which each side of the tension? How do they ultimately resolve this conflict?

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses is a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel. Explore the novel as both Western and Bildungsroman, and make an argument in which you present a theme/central idea that encompasses both genres.

The Rules:

To be considered on time, the paper must be uploaded to Blackboard by the beginning of class on Nov. 14, or before the class meets. Late papers will be docked one letter grade per day of lateness.

Papers found to be plagiarized will receive an F and will be subject to ACC's process for reporting plagiarism detailed in the "Academic Integrity" document in the Syllabus folder on Blackboard.