A complicated Thesis:
MUST have all three topics (one from each of your body paragraphs) in it!
Start with a subordinate adverbial clause or other phrase.
Examples:
Although (Claudius and Hamlet are similar in their lust for power - #3), Claudius’
(sly duplicity #1) and transformation from (a simple knave to a rapacious
monster #2) show (the ultimate danger in an ambition gone awry #1).
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Sati aptly portrays the Seductress archetype, beginning as an ostensible
innocent and then revealing her malicious character, much like Kunthi does
in Nectar in a Sieve, teaching the readers to beware of sneaky women.
Integrated Quotes and citations:
EVERY QUOTE MUST BE PART OF A LARGER SENTENCE
Citations: If you mention the title and author in the first paragraph of your essay,
you only need the page number. If you do not mention the author in the first
paragraph, you need the last name of the author, then a comma, then the page
number.
Ms. Bennett didn’t like it when an anvil fell on her foot: “Ouch!”
If it is a complete sentence before the quote, integrate with a colon.
Ms. Bennett said “OUCH!”.
Simply integrate it by making it part of a sentence.
Punctuation: A PERIOD OR COMMA NEVER GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS
AT THE END OF THE QUOTATION. PERIODS ALWAYS GO AFTER THE CITATION.
THE CITATION GOES OUT SIDE OF THE QUOTATION MARKS.
Example: Although she is usually graceful, Ms. Bennett hurt her foot and
exclaimed “Ouch” (56).
Full and Interesting Intro:
AT THE MOST 3 sentences of summary
Adjectives to analyze and explain the character
Transition to the THESIS STATEMENT
Scenarios and Anecdotes
A scenario is a “what if” situation. What if everyone behaved like Victor
Frankenstein?
An anecdote is a little story told to illustrate a point. For example, Victor
Frankenstein lived a secluded life when he was in school at Wittenburg. One day he
went for a walk around the village. He did not meet anyone he knew because he
had never been out there before. One person he did meet, though, coming off the
carriage from Switzerland was his good friend Henry Clerval.
hubris, archetypes, qualities of a tragic hero, cultural differences,
machismo, beauty, Catholic ideas, myth and stories, literary devices
These are all concepts connected to the stories we read. Hubris is Victor
Frankenstein thinking he is as good as the gods.
Archetypes are ideas of characters and events that follow certain patterns that we
looked at with archetypal creation stories.
Qualities of a tragic hero applies to Oedipus.
Cultural differences come out of Things Fall Apart and the Japanese stories
Machismo is being a “real Man” that we talked about with Chronicles of a Death
Foretold
Beauty we talked about with “The Tomoshibi”.
Catholic ideas were prevalent in The Inferno and also in Hamlet.
Theme and Tone:
The subject of the story is (plot), the moral of the story is (lesson) the theme of the
story completes the sentence “this story says that people tend to…”
Tone is the FEELING of the writing that adds to the experience and meaning.
When you write this in your paper, it should be about how the author used theme
and tone to enhance the meaning and experience of the story.