assignment

Evidence-Interpretation Chart 1 (one of the secondary sources)

MLA Works Cited entry for the source:

"The American Dream in Literature." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg, vol. 210, Gale, 2009. Gale Literature Criticism, link.gale.com/apps/doc/ H1410002163/LCO?u=txshracd2512&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=6cbeb43a. Accessed 21 Nov. 2021.

Evidence: Information from the sources you have found that you think would be valuable to use in your research essay.

Interpretation: The reasons that you think the information is valuable and the ways in which you think you can use the information in your paper.

Page number (for hard- copy sources)

Evidence Factual information/quotation from the text

Interpretation Reasons the information is

valuable/way information can be used in the essay

1.

1. “Yet even as such works were being produced, some authors were creating literary works that reflected the downside of the American Dream.”

1. I will use this quote in the third body paragraph.

2.

2. “Throughout the twentieth century the theme of the American Dream and its pitfalls remained central to American literature. As the country was roiled by industrialization, labor unrest, economic and social inequality, and resentment toward immigration, American writers reflected the country's growing disillusionment with the myth of the American Dream.”

2. This quote will work in my third body paragraph to show the theme of the shattered American Dream.

3.

3. “Arthur Miller's renowned play Death of a Salesman (1949), Norman Mailer's novel An American Dream (1965), and Edward Albee's play The American Dream (1961) were prominent literary works that explored the nightmarish aspects of the theme of the American Dream.”

3. This quote will set the stage for the discussion of The American Dream in the play in the introduction of my essay.

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Note: It doesn’t matter how many pieces of evidence you have. You can have 1, 2, 3 (as I have here), 4, or 5. I wouldn’t have more than 5 or 6, however.