Whole Text Analysis
Choose from the following:
“Sonny’s Blues”
“Araby”
“Hills Like White Elephants
“Cathedral”
“Boys and Girls”
“The Lost World”
Other if discussed and approved
“A Rose for Emily”
“Management of Grief”
“Hunger Artist”
“The Lady with the Dog”
“Flight Patterns”
Specifics:
The whole text:
“The way the elements of fiction we’ve been discussing in isolation fit together
and make up a whole that is somehow more than a sum of its parts. You may focus on
the interplay between certain words or images in a given work—about the network of
associations that establish a story’s meanings and effects.”
“The essay should present the overall theme, and support the generalization with
close analyses of the major elements of the text—showing how such elements as speaker,
plot, imagery, or setting reinforce, define, or modify the theme of the story. Often the
conclusion of such an essay will be a fuller, more refined statement of the theme.”
--The Norton Anthology to Literature
Be sure to support your analysis with specific textual passages that are correctly
documented.
Provide citations for at least 7 specific quoted passages.
Use selections of Student Writing in the Norton Anthology as your model for
documentation: pp. 205 and 439.
Turnitin.com
Period 7: 3610248
Period 8: 3610255
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