Compare and contrast between "The Hunger Games" and "The Road"

LIT 322 Final Project Milestone One: Literary Analysis Proposal Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: By this point in the term, you have completed reading The Hunger Games, which is one of the three text options that you can use for your final literary analysis paper. You will be reading the other options, The Road and Gone Girl, in the upcoming weeks. Last week, you completed a short paper analyzing themes in The Hunger Games. Thinking about those themes that you identified in that first paper, review the summaries provided for each of your other options for your final paper.

Summary and Reviews of The Road Summary and Reviews of Gone Girl

For your first milestone this week, you will begin to formulate and organize your ideas by writing a brief proposal that will start to incorporate key elements of your final paper. Prompt: In your proposal, include the following critical elements:

 Theme: Based on your reading of The Hunger Games and your review of the summaries of The Road and Gone Girl, identify a theme that you are most interested in pursuing at this point for your final paper and provide your rationale for choosing the theme.

 Two Texts: Based on the theme you are planning to focus on that you described above, identify which two texts you think you will choose for your final paper at this point. You will solidify your decision of the two texts in Milestone Two, which is the rough draft of your paper.

 Literary Devices: Identify one to two literary device(s) that illustrate(s) the theme you are interested in. For a complete list of literary devices, refer to the literary terms list.

 Working Thesis Statement: Include a working/draft thesis statement that incorporates the theme that you are planning to explore further in this class. For additional information about crafting a thesis statement, please refer to this excerpt from the Research and Citations section of SNHU’s Online Writing Center resource.

 Commercial Success: Briefly discuss your thoughts as to why this theme appears in other works of popular fiction. Provide examples to justify your claim.

 Historical Influence: Briefly discuss historical happenings or events that may have influenced the authors, genres, or works that you are considering for your final paper. You may use the secondary resource that you identified in your Module Two short paper, but should look for additional scholarly resources to help you with this, as at least two scholarly resources are required in your final paper. Use the resources you find to provide examples.

 Writing Mechanics: As you develop your thesis, be sure to use a clear pattern of organization. Make sure your flow of ideas is logical and easy to understand. Your proposal should be free of errors related to citations, tone, style, grammar, spelling, syntax and should be presented in a professional and easy-to-read format.

Guidelines for Submission: For Milestone One, submit a two-page literary analysis proposal. It should follow these formatting guidelines: double spacing, 12- point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident Value

Theme Identifies a theme and provides the rationale for why it was chosen (100%)

Identifies a theme but does not provide the rationale for why it was chosen (75%)

Does not identify a theme (0%) 10

Two Texts Identifies title of two primary texts from this course that share a theme identified above (100%)

Does not identify two primary texts from this course that share a theme identified above (0%)

10

Literary Devices Selected literary device(s) are able to support chosen theme (100%)

Selected literary device(s) are not able to support chosen theme (75%)

Does not select a literary device(s) (0%)

10

Working Thesis Statement

Includes a working/draft thesis statement that incorporates the chosen theme (100%)

Includes a working/draft thesis statement, but it does not incorporate the chosen theme (75%)

Does not include a working/draft thesis statement (0%)

20

Commercial Success

Discusses why the chosen theme appears in other works of popular fiction and provides examples to justify claim (100%)

Discusses why the chosen theme appears in other works of popular fiction but does not provide examples to justify claim (75%)

Does not discuss why the chosen theme appears in other works of popular fiction (0%)

20

Historical Influence

Discusses historical happenings or events that may have influenced the genres, authors, or works and provide specific examples from secondary resources to justify claims (100%)

Discusses historical happenings or events that may have influenced the genres, authors, or works, but does not provide specific examples from secondary resources to justify claims (75%)

Does not discuss historical happenings or events that may have influenced the genres, authors, or works (0%)

20

Writing Mechanics Minor errors related to grammar or formatting; utilizes course concepts and terminology (100%)

Some errors related to grammar or formatting; utilizes some course concepts and terminology (75%)

Major errors related to grammar or formatting; does not utilize course concepts and terminology (0%)

10

Total 100%