short story analysis

An 800-to-1000-word short story analysis of the short story OConnor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. This is the thesis statement: Through symbolic imagery and subtle foreshadowing, Flannery OConnor builds an atmosphere of inevitable tragedy in A Good Man is Hard to Find, illustrating how denial of reality and clinging to illusions can lead to destruction. Using one literary criticism reference sourse in the essay, I have attached the PDF of the one to use. Please include citation and in text citations where needed. and the book itself as a source. The guidelines for the essay are listed below along with a LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY OUTLINE GUIDE.

These are the guidelines

Guidelines:

1. Follow the MLA formatting guidelines listed on the Policies for Assignments and Essays” and in the “MLA Formatting Example for 102 Essays” on the Getting Started/Course Info link. Also, use the “Essay Outline Planning Guide” found below this assignment to help you plan your essay.

2. Title your essay creatively–do not give your essay the same title as the short story you are analyzing.

3. Use present tense, and write in third person (Use “the reader” or “readers,” not I, me, my, you, your, or yourself).

4. The first time you refer to the author in a sentence, use his or her full name. For example, William Faulkner set his novels and short stories in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. After that, only use his or her last name in a sentence: Faulkner reveals at the end of “A Rose for Emily” that Miss Emily Grierson was a necrophiliac.

5. Place the short story title inside quotation marks. Do not italicize it.

6. Include an introduction with an audience attention-getter and a thesis statement that reveals the essay’s purpose. Write well developed supporting paragraphs with details and quotations from the short story and supporting evidence from the database literary criticism. Transition smoothly between paragraphs and ideas. Write a conclusion that draws the analysis to a close, not merely restates the thesis or content of the earlier paragraphs.

7. Integrate quotations smoothly into your sentences, punctuating and citing them correctly. Do not use long block quotations.

8. Use parenthetical in-text citations for quotations and paraphrases.

9. To support your analysis, quote and cite one literary criticism from the TCTC Library’s Literature Criticism database, not from a website. Review the notes in Good Search in this Unit 3. The , , , or will be most helpful with your research. If they are not, the library has several other literature and biography databases. (Remember to have your T# when searching the databases.) This means you should have TWO sources on the Works Cited: the short story you choose from our textbook and one literary criticism of the short story. Be sure to list the sources alphabetically, use a hanging indent, and cite both correctly.

Remember, you’ll need your T# to access the databases. Use the TCTC library databases for your research; no websites are allowed. For help finding sources, chat with a librarian using the chatbox under “Got a question?” on the .

10. Use an attribution to introduce the literary criticism author and/or article title (if no author is given) when you first include it in your essay.

11. Do not plagiarize. Please be aware that when you submit essays, they will be run through SafeAssign and will be checked for plagiarism. See the ENG 102 English Department Syllabus and the Policies for Assignments for consequences of plagiarism.

12. Create a Works Cited using correct MLA 8th edition documentation formatting. Review , Remember to include the story’s original publication date after its title in the Works Cited entry. Use the Citation tool on the database article to construct the Works Cited entry for your library database literary criticism article. Check the accuracy of the Citation tool using the MLA documentation chapters in our 102 textbooks and the Purdue OWL resources.

13. Revise the content of your essay and MLA documentation of sources, and edit your writing for grammar, punctuation, and spelling before submitting your final essay for a grade. I recommend reviewing more of the and to help you edit your own writing.

LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY OUTLINE GUIDE

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I. Introduction

(paragraph #1)

Attention Getter

use an introduction strategy from

C

ompact Literature (CL)

Ch. 2

or

Brief Cengage Handbook

(

BCH

)

Ch. 34e

to catch the audiences attention / 2

–

5 sentences

Background

establish and narrow the context for the thesis / 2

–

5 sentences

Thesis Statement

the point to be proven /

include

the authors name, title of the literary work, and an action verb

/

1

–

2 sentences

Support

ing

Ideas

provide

evidence in sup

port of the thesis statement / often the

because

clause of the thesis /

Supporting ideas will become the Topic Sentences in the Body paragraphs and should appear

in

emphatic order

from

least to most important

/ include as many supporting ideas as necessary

II. Body

(paragraph #2)

Topic Sentence

Transition

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/ the main point of this paragraph / covers

Supporting Idea

#1 in the

Thesis

Support Sentences

provide evidence

from

the

short story

to develop Topic Sentence

us

e

MLA

parenthetical in

–

text citations for quotations and paraphrases / 5

–

9 sentences

Conclusion Sentence

concludes the point of this paragraph and prepares the reader for the next point

with a transition*

III. Body

(

paragraph #3)

Topic Sentence

Transition

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/ the main point of this paragraph / covers

Supporting Idea

#

2

in the

Thesis

Support Sentences

provide evidence

from

the

short story

to develop Topic Sentence

use

MLA

parenthetical in

–

text citations for quotations a

nd paraphrases / 5

–

9 sentences

Conclusion Sentence

concludes the point of this paragraph and prepares the reader for the next point

with a transition*

IV. Body

(paragraph #4)

Topic Sentence

Transition

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/ the main point of this paragraph / covers

Suppor

ting Idea

#

3

in the

Thesis

Support Sentences

provide evidence

from

the

short story

to develop Topic Sentence

use

MLA

parenthetical in

–

text citations for quotations and paraphrases / 5

–

9 sentences

Conclusion Sentence

concludes the point of this paragraph and prepares the reader for the next point

with a transition*

And so on…

The

B

ody

of the essay should

be developed with as many paragraphs as your topic demands.

V. Conclusion

(final paragraph)

Thesis Restatement

the

Thesis Statement is rewritten

not

copied / 1

–

2 sentences

Closing

summarizes the Supporting Ideas as evidence for the Thesis Statement /

does not simply restate

the Supporting Ideas but

brings the Analysis to an effective

close/ 2

–

5 sentences

Clincher

use a conclusion strategy from

CL

Ch. 2 or

BCH

Ch. 34e to

draw the argument

to a strong close

/ 2

–

5 sentences

VI. Work

s

Cited

(final page)

MLA

Documentation of

short story

(

short story in an an

thology

)

and literary criticism

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Transitional Devices

prepare the audience for the next point by making connections: they

assist the audience to follow a main

line of thought. Transitions may appear either as a prefix idea in the Topic Sentence or as

a suffix thought in the Conclusion Sentence

of a paragraph. See

pp. 94, 434

–

37, 451, and 545 in

The Brief Cengage

Handbook

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Note

:

Writing is a creative process. As you write, you are bringing to life your thoughts.

This outline is a guide, not an instruction

manual.

When you write, feel free to use this template to assist you in structuring your thoughts into a coh

esive argument;

however, once you have physically shaped your argument, through your words, you may make the outline disappear while

maintaining the structure.