literary analysis

Complete a 3 Full page essay assignment:

Instructions:

Sherwood Anderson -- “Hands”

Discuss the author’s use of religious imagery in the story. Be sure to provide examples from the text to support your assertions.

Please write a well-developed essay based on the question prompt. Your thesis will be the answer to the question/prompt.

· Thesis requires the answer to the question/prompt.

· Be sure to use a signal phrase before your selected quote from the story

· Do not use quotes in the introduction paragraph and conclusion

· Third person in all parts of your essay except the conclusion paragraph where you are allowed to use first person

· Required to use one direct quote in each body paragraph for support of the analysis point you present in the topic sentence of each body paragraph.

· You will include the page number from the pdf file in your citation of the quote.

· Do not include a works cited page; however, you are required to include the author’s full name and the full title of the reading in the introduction paragraph.

· You will be graded on how well you follow the Essay Writing Guidelines, by how well you explain your quotes in your literary analysis, for grammar concerns, for MLA style usage, and paragraph development.

· The length of the essay is THREE full pages. Be sure to allow adequate time to proofread your work.

· Review the stories and look through the story for good quotes to support the different literary question topics.

· Have your 2nd choice of a story in mind as well in case you do not like the question, I ask about your first choice.

You are not allowed to use ANY outside sources (information from the Internet, any portions of other student papers, or other students) to complete your analysis - students who use outside sources in their assignment will receive an automatic zero/F.