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Paper 2- Analysis Essay

With this paper, you will analyze a short story of your choice and divulge the hidden meaning(s) found in the text.

Task:

Address the following prompt:

What is the message of the story you chose? What techniques or strategies does the writer use to deliver the message? Please use the worksheet you completed in Learning Activity #1 to help you determine the techniques.

For example, did the author use foreshadowing, figurative language, suspense, etc. to help deliver the message? Did the author use characterization to help deliver the message? Did the author use the sequence of events to deliver the message?

When writing this paper, you need to focus on one or two strategies. The main purpose of this paper is the determine whether you can figure out the story's central message and find which methods the author used to deliver that message.

With this assignment, you will be tasked with supplying the following documents:

· Worksheet for Fiction Analysis - Found in Learning Activity #1

· Outline - It must focus on one of the stories listed under Learning Activity #1.

· Brainfuse Report

· Final Paper

Resource:

Using the following document to help you outline/organize your paper.

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Paper Details:

· At least 500 words but no more than 750

· MLA formatted

· In-text citations from the story.

TheStoryofanHour.pdf

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” originally published 1894.

The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break

to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in

half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been

in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently

Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its

truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in

bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to

accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.

When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no

one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank,

pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with

the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was

crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly,

and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and

piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except

when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep

continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain

strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on

one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a

suspension of intelligent thought.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” originally published 1894.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She

did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky,

reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that

was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless

as her two white slender hands would have been.

When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She

said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror

that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and

the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and

exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death;

the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw

beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her

absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and

women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind

intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief

moment of illumination.

And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could

love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she

suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for

admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill. What are

you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."

"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through

that open window.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” originally published 1894.

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days,

and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long.

It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish

triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped

her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the

bottom.

Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a

little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the

scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's

piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

But Richards was too late.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.

LiteraryAnalysisEssayoutlineguideandtemplate-1.pdf

Five-Paragraph Essay Structure for Literary Analysis / Outline Guide:

I. Introduction

A. Attention Getter/Hook– Introduce your main idea in a general way. The introduction to your literary

analysis essay should try to capture your reader’s interest about what you will analyze. Begin with a

broad statement here, and get more specific as the introduction progresses.

B. Preview – Get more specific and lead into your thesis here. State any background information

relevant to your thesis, social or historical context, and/or important author or literary period

information. Include the author and title of the work somewhere in your introduction.

C. Thesis Statement – The most specific part of your introduction, your thesis statement is one sentence

telling the main idea of your whole essay – it is what you are analyzing about your piece of literature.

This must be a statement that can stand alone and also something that can be proven.

II. Body Paragraphs – Three paragraphs explaining your analysis and proving your point. Each body paragraph

should have:

A. Topic Sentence - First sentence of paragraph that tells the main idea of just that paragraph. Make

sure this sentence presents the ideas of the whole paragraph; do not go straight into your first

example/evidence.

B. Supporting Sentences - Support the topic sentence with details, explanations, quotes, examples, etc.

You must have at least two passages from the text(s) to support your main idea in each body paragraph.

You must introduce the quote, cite it correctly, and then explain it thoroughly. Make sure to always

connect your evidence back to your thesis.

C. Transition Sentence - Last sentence in paragraph that closes the paragraph and leads into the next

paragraph (in last body paragraph, this will be just a concluding sentence)

V. Conclusion

A. Revisit your thesis (not repeated word for word) - Return to your main idea here, indicating closure

and final analysis.

B. Sum up main points from body paragraphs. Reiterate, not repeat. Again, aim for closure and

connection. Show how your main points fit together and what they say as a whole. Do not just repeat

your topic sentences.

C. Clincher/projecting/relevance sentence - Wrap up your essay by stating the broader implications of

your analysis, maybe something about society’s outlook or attitude concerning the main idea of your

essay, what effect the text and your main idea has on readers, or what significance your main idea has

on the work as a whole. This makes your essay relevant. Use words like if, will, maybe, always, perhaps,

and hopefully.

ESSAY OUTLINE TEMPLATE

PROMPT/TOPIC: ___________________________________________________________________________________

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INTRO:

HOOK/BROAD STATEMENT: _______________________________________________________________________

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PREVIEW/LEAD INTO THESIS: _______________________________________________________________________

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THESIS: __________________________________________________________________________________________

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MAIN POINT 1: ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Passage to support:

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Cite passage: _______________________________________________________________________________________

Explain passage (how does it support your point?): _______________________________________________________

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Explain passage (how does it support your point?): _______________________________________________________

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MAIN POINT 2: ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Passage to support:

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Cite passage: _______________________________________________________________________________________

Explain passage (how does it support your point?): _______________________________________________________

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Passage to support:

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MAIN POINT 3: ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Passage to support:

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Explain passage (how does it support your point?): _______________________________________________________

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CONCLUSION:

REVISIT THESIS (Do not restate it word for word): ________________________________________________________

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SUM UP MAJOR POINTS: ____________________________________________________________________________

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PROJECTING/RELEVANCE SENTENCE: ___________________________________________________________________