essay due today

Choose two of the short stories below to answer in a well-supported and structured essay. Be sure that your thesis, usually located at the end of your introduction, clearly addresses the prompt. In the introductory paragraph, clearly indicate the works and authors of the works chosen. Be sure to put short story titles in quotation marks and do quote and paraphrase from each of the texts you select at least twice: one paraphrase and one quotation per text.

Support your thesis with paragraphs that have clear topic sentences and examples of both quotations and paraphrases from the text of the works. Be sure to introduce all quotations correctly (use one of three ways to introduce quotations) and do cite author and page number. If you use the author’s last name to introduce a quotation, you only need the page number after. As this essay requires close textual analysis, do tie your points to specifics in the story. Every time you quote or paraphrase, you need to cite the author and page number directly after the information in a parenthesis: (Faulkner 2). If you use the author’s name to introduce the information, then all you need is the page number in the parenthesis, as in the following. If no page numbers are printed on the text, then you do not need page numbers.

Faulkner describes Emily Grierson as a sheltered young girl: “a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a to horsewhip” (2).

Do use Times New Roman, size 12, and do double space. Please write in complete sentences and do not use “you” or contractions. You may use your texts, the grids you filled out for class, the quoting versus paraphrases sheet, the tips on in-class essay writing, the psychoanalytic terms, and a dictionary and/or thesaurus. No other sources are allowed, and use of them will result in zero for this essay, as will any other forms of academic dishonesty. You have the class time to write this essay and upload it to the link, and the essay will be reviewed by Turnitin before I grade it. I have created some sample theses to help you, as well. Good luck!

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Choose two of the works to respond to the question below: “The Fortune-Teller,” “A Rose for Emily,” “The Lady with the Toy Dog,” and/or “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

According to Lois Tyson, Dr. Freud believed that “fear of death may manifest as a fear of abandonment, fear of being alone, fear of intimacy, fear of losing one’s mate, job, health, looks, position, children, and friends.” Choosing two stories, compare and/or contrast how the two main characters are manifesting their fear of death; be sure to give specific examples from the story. In real life, do you see fear of death manifesting in similar ways? Be sure to support your conclusion with specific, real life examples.

Sample Theses:

While the characters in "XXX" and "XXX" manifest their fear of death in similar ways, the results are very different. [This thesis shows both comparison and contrast.]

Both the characters in "XXX" and "XXX" demonstrate their fear of death in similar ways and with similar results. [This thesis shows comparison].

Both the characters in "XXX" and "XXX" show their fear of death in different ways and with different results. [This thesis shows contrast]