This next essay assignment is another literary analysis (similar to Essay 1). Remember, literary analysis is breaking down the parts (literary elements) to better understand the story. For this next essay assignment we are focusing our attention on the literary elements of point of view and setting. Choose one prompt below for your topic. Each prompt includes some questions to help guide your thinking. The thesis statement needs to present one main idea, your claim that responds to the prompt. Each body paragraph should support the thesis with a clear sub claim. Be sure that the connections between your body paragraphs and your thesis statement are clear. Also, be sure you use some textual evidence to support your claims. This is a must in literary analysis.

1. Write an essay analyzing the unreliable narrator’s motivation in “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” by Ron Carlson. Why does he tell us this incredible story? Other questions to guide your thinking: What character traits contribute to his unreliability? How do we readers react to his tale? Does he expect us to believe it? Does he believe it?

2. Write an essay analyzing how the setting in “Greasy Lake” by T.C. Boyle functions like a character in the story. Think in terms of the relationship between the setting and the other characters in the story—how they interact. What does this interaction help us to understand about the characters? Other questions to guide your thinking:  How does the setting help and/or hinder the characters? How would you classify the setting as a character? How do the character traits of the setting contribute to our understanding of the story?

3. Write an essay analyzing how the point of view and setting contribute to our reaction of the occurrence at the end of the story “Little Things” by Raymond Carver. Other questions to guide your thinking:  How do the point of view and setting create the conflict in the story? How do we readers understand the characters’ motivation?

This is a literary analysis essay, a formal college-level assignment. Please structure your paper as an essay that includes an engaging introduction, at least three well-developed body paragraphs (may be more), and a robust conclusion. Also, abide by the rules of grammar and MLA formatting. Your primary source (the story) should be cited accurately.

Requirements:

Length:  2-3 pages

Be sure that you have an intro, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion

MLA format

MLA format / citation Specifics

Use the following information to help cite your primary source. I’m giving this information because some of the stories are handouts. I have given instructions for each story in terms of the in-text citations as well. In-text citations are the page numbers that tell readers where your quote is located. Please use parenthetical citation format. Example. "The problem is credibility" (1). 

"Little Things"

-End Citation Info: Carver, Raymond. "Little Things." Winston-Salem Forsythe County Schools. Winston-SalemForsythe County Schools, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

-In-text citations:  No, you do not need to cite page numbers in the text – because it’s only a two-page story.

 "Bigfoot Stole My Wife"

-End Citation Info: Carlson, Ron. "Bigfoot Stole My Wife." Harvard University. Harvard University, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.

-In-text citations: Yes, do cite pages. Number them 1-4 on your handout and cite accordingly.

 "Greasy Lake"

-End Citation Info: Boyle, T.C. “Greasy Lake.” Literature: Craft, and Voice. Ed. Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse. 2nd ed. New York:  McGraw, 2014. 189-194. Print.

-In-text citations: Yes, do cite pages as they are listed in your textbook.

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