Category: Literature

check the picture uploaded for instructions. that is all that is given for this assignment.

Jackie Nixon as the covert antagonist in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army.

I have uploaded a sample term paper for you to know the layout requirements (I will do the first page myself) and an initial secondary source for you to use.

For your

first

essay assignment for this semester, Id like you to think about

how we

can think about the work of either Elena Ferrante or Karl Ove Knausgaard in terms

of the logic of serialisation

.

Your assignment is to write a structured essay of around 1,500 words

that responds to the following prompt:

Think either about the extracts provided from Elena

Ferrantes My Brilliant

Friend

or Karl Ove Knausgaards

A Death in the Family

(feel free to read further

into these novels

,

or indeed the

Neapolitan Novels

or My Struggle series

,

if it

helps and

/

or interests you

, the library can help you out here

). How do the

tropes and conventions of serialised forms weve been thinking about

so far

this semester help us elucidate the Ferrante or Knausgaard writing project?

I am open to alternative but similar essay titles (Id be delighted to read something

about

Madame Bovary

or

The Mysteries of Paris

, for example), but please discuss any

such radical departures with me first).

Id suggest that your starting point should be thinking about how you might articulate

some of the tropes and conventions

of serialised novels

(research will

be essential

here)

.

In terms of structuring your essay, I’d like you to think about clearly articulated

arguments, backed up with appropriate (and

correctly cited

) primary and secondary

source material. If you are unsure about the conventions of academic writing, and

how these conventions are interpreted at the American University of Paris, please

make an appointment either with your professor or the AUP Writing La

b (who are

still

existing,

virtually).

The

following

link

might

be

helpful:

https://www.aup.edu/academics/academic

–

career

–

resources/academic

–

resource

–

center/writing

–

lab/writing

–

resources

. If youd like to discuss your initial ideas for the

essay, please feel free to make

an appointment with me

.

I do not want you to use generative AI in the writing of this project. I suggest that

AI tools will not provide the most perti

nent, thoughtful or fruitful research for

secondary source materials for you

. If you do make use of AI, please attach a short

report of how you have used it

to your submission.

Submission

1. Which topic from the Portfolio Guidelines have you selected?

I selected post-pandemic mental health and wellness.

2. What is the specific problem you have identified?

The problem is that the pandemic affected elementary and high school students differently, with younger children struggling with basic learning and social skills, while high school students faced stress, anxiety, and academic pressure.

3. What are the 2 solutions to the problem?

One solution is age specific mental health support in schools. Another solution is targeted academic programs for each age group, such as early learning support for elementary students and counseling for high school students.

4. What is the counterargument to the 2 solutions?

A counterargument is that schools may not have enough funding or staff, and some believe students will adjust over time without extra help.

***NOTE: I attached a annotated research, please use those citation , total of paragraph is 4, each paragraph must had a citation, and the citation must go in the middle and do not add any subtitle***

Literary Analysis Essay Assignment Description English 232 For this assignment, you will select a single work from the readings we have done for this semester (or a comparison of 2no more) and compose an essay of at least 1000 words demonstrating your ability to argue an interpretation of a literary text. The thesis is up to you, but it must be cleared by me before you begin your essay! Some places to begin might be analyzing the uses of literary elements (character analysis, themes, symbols, conflicts, etc.). You may choose to analyze a single element from one work and discuss how that element works to create a significant meaning. You may also chose to look two of the pieces we have discussed and write a comparison and/or contrast of the element you have selected from the stories (again, character, theme, symbols, conflicts, etc). There are many possibilities! Please select one that is meaningful and interesting for you! You MUST select and quote from at least two outside, scholarly sources in MLA format for this essay. This could be literary analysis or something like scholarly texts from history or psychology to set up background information for the characters. For more details, please see the next page. The absolutes: 1000 words written in MLA format with at least two outside sources quoted in the story and cited on the Works Cited page. your name, the class title, the date on the upper left-hand side of the first page your name and page number in the upper right-hand corner in the header after page one And it should be a complete critical analysis of 1000 words, typed, double spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font. 1. Make sure you conform to all MLA formatting conventions and quote from both of your sources in the essay. 2. Make sure you use the word narrator or speaker to denote the person telling the story. The voice in which the story is told does not necessarily represent the author him or herself. 3. Give your essay an appropriate title. Do not underline or put quotation marks around this title, but do capitalize first letters of all important words: Mothers and Daughters. If you include the title of the fiction in your title you do want to indicate that is a title by putting quotation marks around it: Mothers and Daughters in Everyday Use” 4. Dont say I believe or I think or in my opinion in your essay. Readers should be aware that literary analysis deals with forming opinions that are then supported, so it is redundant to say these are your opinions. 5. The first time you mention it, formally introduce the authors whole name and the story title. Thereafter, refer to the author by his or her last name. Beginning: In Flannery OConnors Good Country People, Later: OConnor reveals Hulgas state of mind by…. Also, put quotation marks around titles of short stories, poems and lyrics, such as Good Country People and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. 6. State your thesis early (a common place is the end of the introduction, but the introduction can take more than one paragraph to form). Provide an introductory paragraph or more; body paragraphs where you make claims and provide evidence (quotes, paraphrases, facts), explanation and reasoning to support the thesis; and a conclusion. 7. Use the present tense to describe events in the story unless you must distinguish the past from the present. Connie feels trapped by the oppressive expectations of her family. Hulga convinces herself that she is the sophisticated one in all of her relationships. 8. Do not ignore the ending of the story, because thats where the meaning really takes shape. An analysis of what the ending finally does to the meaning of the story as a whole is essential even if you analyze it only briefly. 9. Organization: Avoid summarizing the story. You don’t have to tell readers everything that happens in the story and often the best evidence you have to support your claims will come late in the text, so do your best to hunt evidence and organize around supporting your thesis with that evidence. Start body paragraphs with claims such as “The main character’s behavior shows that she is selfish” or signal phrases that remind us you are about to introduce another piece of evidence. “More evidence that she is selfish can be found in the scene where her husband tries to talk her into moving to a less expensive apartment.” If your body paragraphs begin with summary statements such as “First the couple wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of the faucet dripping” that’s a sign you may be summarizing instead of analyzing where you make claims and then back them up with evidence. Look at opening sentences of your body paragraphs to check if you are analyzing properly and really writing an essay. A note about introductions. Your introduction should include your thesis, but sometimes you want to work up to that. A good place for it is often late in the introductory paragraph, perhaps even the last sentence of the introduction, because once you have stated it, the reader wants to start hearing why you interpret the story as you do. So what do you write before the thesis? It makes sense to introduce the author and title somewhere in the introduction. If you are going to use any important terms that need defining, make sure that you do that when needed. But besides those essentials here are 3 different suggestions of ways to introduce a literary analysis: 1) Explain a way or ways the story has already been analyzed by other critics, to show how your reading is fresh and different. 2) Begin by introducing the author and his or her background (this is especially effective if you will be using biography as part of your argument). 3) Introduce an issue or theme you will focus on in your essay, historical roles of women or men, for example, or the nature of religious faith in general or a quote from another text that is relevant to what occurs in the story. Also, look at other pieces of criticism from other models in the online library database. See what kinds of introduction you prefer and use that style in your own essay if appropriate. Also: A very nice technique is to use a pertinent quote as an epigraph to focus the attention of your readers on the relevant theme of your essay. The quote can be from another work entirely or from the story itself. Integrate it with the following format: The Creeps Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; –Emily Dickinson Connies perception of sanity changes radically in Joyce Carol Oates short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. If viewed by the protagonist, Connnie, at the beginning of the story, she would deem her own actions just a day later as total madness. But in the end, her madness makes quite a bit of sense… A note about conclusions. Your readers may have different needs depending on how you have proceeded in your paper. A Big Picture or So What Now conclusion is often effective. Dont make new claims about the text that need supporting, but do analyze why what youve revealed in your essay is interesting or important, perhaps to the meaning of the story. Circling is also very effective. If you come back to something you said much earlier, it will give readers a very clear feeling that you have completed your task. For example: When Emily Dickinson claims Much madness is divinest sense she describes perfectly the irony that what looks like madness, like the behavior of Connie in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, is clearly both logical and sane… This would be a circling technique if it came as the ending for an essay that began as in the last example listed above, the example with the Dickinson quote. Langston Hughes

a critical analysis of any 2 of the following work

I am from clothespins,

from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.

I am from dirt under the back porch . . .

Im from the know-it-alls

and the pass-it-ons,

from Perk up! and Pipe down!

Im from He restoreth my soul

with a cottonball lamb

and ten verses I can say myself.

George Ella

A POEM BY

I am Hajara Eve Muzammal.

First generation, Pakistani American, and female.

My Pakistani dad called me for dinner in his thick accent.

I rush downstairs and begin eating Daal and Roti with him.

As we eat, we watch the 2021 election.

Biden vs Trump.

Biden’s vote goes higher, OUR BUSINESS!, my dad blurted out.

I am distraught.

How can my dad be so selfish about his business rather than human issues?

Women’s rights, racism, etc.

Does that mean nothing to him?

Is he okay seeing his brown daughter suffering from sexism and racism?

As a white male, he has no worry in the world.

Male and white. Perfect!

I am ambitious.

I blurted back How can you be so self centered? My brown eyes are secured on him.

Stew trickling down on his chin.

The next 1800 seconds, we were at each other’s throat.

My mother comes in with her red sequin lehenga.

We stop and admire my mothers beauty.

Mother scolded me for disrespecting dad, love patriarchy.

I am disappointed.

I go back upstairs with one piece of roti.

I sit in solitude and start questioning my family.

Am I okay with this?

No.

I am a feminist.

by

For this in-class writing assignment, you will write a brief critical analysis essay, just as we practiced in class. Choose one of the three questions, and respond, using the excerpts from both the accompanying literary text and the critical text. As practiced in class, your essay can take the following shape: I. Introduction: Answer the prompt question in a way that is specific, arguable, and focused. (Remember: For a bluebook essay, this just needs to be a sentence two sentences tops!) Il. Body Paragraphs): You only need to do one, but if you are feeling ambitious, you can certainly attempt two. (Be mindful of time.). Here you will support your argument with reasons and evidence. You can use the TEXAS paragraph format. Topic Sentence: Make a claim about the literary text that supports your argument. Explain: Explain the critical context or lens that you’ll be applying. eXample (Evidence): Provide examples from the literary text that demonstrate what you’re claiming. Analyze: How or why does this example demonstrate what you’re claiming. Summarize / So what?: Say what applying the critical lens helps us understand about the literary text. Ill. Conclusion: You have two options restate your argument or explain the big picture/broader implications. Like your introduction, this should only be a sentence or two. 3: The Old English poem Beowulf is a monomythic story, the tale of a “hero’s journey” about Beowulf himself. However, in the opening of Beowul, the narator relates stories of past kings to his own community, so how might these stories function as a kind of “monomyth” for the community Joseph Campbell describes in The Power of Myth? listening to the narrator? How might Beowul/help them make sense of their own world in the way Excerpts Beowulf Anonymous, Oral Tradition (Unknown date, between the 6th and 10″h centuries) Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days. everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Privilege is the way-men-prime power. teworld.over. Only stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times. Their first father was a foundling: Scyld Scefing. He spent his youth fists up, browbeating every barstool-brother, bonfiring his enemies. That man began in the waves, a baby in a basket, but he bootstrapped his way into a kingdom, trading loneliness for luxury. Whether they thought kneeling necessary or no, everyone from head to tail of the whale-road bent down: There’s a king, there’s his crown! That was a good king. Later, God sent Scyld a son, a wolf cub, further proof of manhood. Being God, He knew how the Spear-Danes had suffered, the misery they’d mangled through, leaderless, long years of loss, so the Life-lord, that Almighty Big Boss, birthed them an Earth-shaker. Beow’s name kissed legions of lips by the time he was half-grown, but his own father was still breathing. We all know a boy can’t daddy until his daddy’s dead. A smart son gives 20 gifts to his father’s friends in peacetime. When war woos him, as war will, he’ll need those troops to follow the leader. Scyld was iron until the end. When he died, his warriors executed his final orders. They swaddled their king of rings and did just as the Dane had demanded, back when mind and meter could merge in his mouth. 30 They bore him to the harbor, and into the bosom of a ship, that father they’d followed, that man they’d adored. She was anchored and eager to embark, an ice maiden built to bear the weight of a prince. They laid him by the mast, packed tight in his treasure-trove, bright swords, war-weeds, his lap holding a hoard of flood-tithes, each fare-coin placed by a loyal man. He who pays the piper calls the tune. His shroud shone, ringed in runes, sun-stitched. I’ve never heard of any ship so heavy, nor corpse so rich. Scyld came into the world unfavored; his men weighted him as well as the strangers had, who’d once warped him to the waves’ weft. Even ghosts must be fitted to fight. The war-band flew a golden flag over their main man; the salt sea saluted him, so too the storms, and Seyld’s soldiers got drunk instead of crying. They mourned the way men do. No man knows, not me, not you, who hauled Scyld’s hoard to shore, but the poor are plentiful, and somebody create something like this on hamlet act 1 scene 1

No exact word count or page length is mentioned.

However, the instructions indicate that this is a very short in-class critical analysis essay (bluebook essay) with the following structure:

1. Introduction

• 12 sentences answering the prompt.

1. Body Paragraph(s)

• At least one paragraph (two if time allows).

1. Conclusion

• 12 sentences restating the argument or explaining the broader significance.

So the expected length is essentially a brief essay of about 12 analytical paragraphs.

The assignment asks students to:

1. Choose one of the three questions (the text you shared corresponds to Question 3).
2. Use excerpts from two sources:

• the literary text (Beowulf)
• the critical text (The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell).

1. Write a critical analysis essay applying a theoretical perspective to the literary text.

The body paragraph should follow the TEXAS paragraph structure:

• T Topic Sentence: A claim about the literary text that supports the argument.
• E Explain: Explain the critical framework or theoretical lens.
• X Example: Provide textual evidence from Beowulf.
• A Analyze: Explain how the example supports the claim.
• S Summarize / So What: Explain what this analysis reveals about the text.