Write a well-developed essay (3-5 pages, not 2 1/2) as you respond analytically to the story. Include in your discussion all the points asked to be addressed.
DO NOT NARRATE. Explain its critical significance and quote generously from the story to support your ideas. Be structured and focus on a controlling thesis. Use text well, but if you must use research, please document appropriately using MLA format.Essay Assignment #1: Due by Monday, May 11 via Canvas Please do not send as a pdf. Your first essay assignment is based upon your readings of the short stories read. Select ONE of the following topics. Write a well-developed essay (3-5 pages, not 2 1/2) as you respond analytically to the story. Include in your discussion all the points asked to be addressed. DO NOT NARRATE. Explain its critical significance and quote generously from the story to support your ideas. Be structured and focus on a controlling thesis. Use text well, but if you must use research, please document appropriately using MLA format. 1.Men and women living in society often must choose between the dictates of their conscience and what is expected of them as members of a community. Using Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, discuss the way or ways in which the author dramatizes the character’s struggles to live her/his lifestyle. How significant is this in relation to others either in or outside their community? Does the author make this important? How? Consider the conflicts of Mrs. Mallard living in a society that places women as second-class citizens and Young Goodman Brown who is conflicted between his faith and his commitment to fulfilling his errand. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. In the two stories, “Araby” by James Joyce and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, both main characters experience loss. They lose in love. Yes, both have different relationships with their intended, but they lose and suffer consequences. Surprisingly, both reflect upon their “vanity”. Miss Emily’s vanity is implied with her family name, Grierson, while the young boy cries out “I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger”. Discuss how both stories develop the theme of unrequited love. How does this loss affect the characters mentally and emotionally? Discuss how point of view in “A Rose for Emily” and the function of setting in “Araby” affect the character’s development. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. In the short story “The Red Convertible”, the development of characters is drawn directly and indirectly. Discuss thoroughly how the literary concept of character is woven between the brothers, Lyman and Henry, and the convertible. Is the character a car? What is its relationship to Henry? Why does Lyman destroy the car? What connection is there between Henry and car? HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY The purpose of a literary analysis essay is to carefully examine and sometimes evaluate a work of literature or an aspect of a work of literature. As with any analysis, this requires you to break the subject down into its component parts. Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help you better appreciate and understand the work of literature as a whole.