Short Story Analysis Essay
Literary Analysis Instructions:
Analysis Essay should reflect basic ENC 1101 writing skills with a precise and debatable thesis. A thesis answers the “So what” can I tell my readers that they don’t already know from reading the work of literature. In other words, DO NOT RETELL the story. This is NOT a summary. You are arguing a claim or viewpoint about your chosen short story and discussing the theme of the text throughout your paper. You have to assume your audience has already read the story. A literary analysis should not merely repeat or echo the introductory material in the literature anthology. Nor should it summarize the literature read. Rather, in the response, you should apply, query, reflect on, relate, etc. the literary material you have read. Move beyond discussions of the plot. Refer to events only to illustrate a point or to provide an example for the thesis or focus of the paper.
Using the writing guidelines for analysis found in your textbook, the links, and the module, select any literary work assigned from the short story unit and discuss the theme (minimum 750 words). Consult the sample essay and your textbook.
Minimum: 750 Words
YOU MUST use TWO outside sources (not the textbook) to help support your claim. These two sources must be credible. Use two direct quotations with parenthetical in-text citations in your paper.
Topics to avoid are assumptions that the author controls reader\'s responses or that all readers read alike and respond in some predictable way. Just avoid focusing on the reader of the literature because that is a distraction from a focus on the literature.
Another topic to minimize is the biography of the author. Many lived interesting lives and are interesting topics to write about, but the author is not the literature, so a focus on the author\'s life or assumptions about their thoughts or intentions in the literature is also a distraction.
Essays will be evaluated on the depth of insight they show and on your well-integrated application of the terms and topics addressed in the module videos, links, readings, and presentations.
Rubric and short story attached
