Reading

Transcribe and analyze a key passage from one of the readings this week.

First, present your properly quoted and cited passage.

Briefly paraphrase (in your own words), what this passage is telling us.

Finally, for your analysis, consider the following questions:

· What is the overall message or the point the author wants to drive home?

· If fiction, what seems to be the character or narrator’s attitude in the passage?

· If non-fiction, what seems to be the author’s attitude in the passage?

· Does the meaning of words go beyond the denoted meaning/what is the connotative meaning of the words?

· Could there be more than one way to interpret this passage? If so, what are the alternatives?

· In what ways is this passage significant to the work as a whole?