Description
Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions with society. A literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at work in literature; this gives us greater insight into the personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a literature course in that it improves our writing, reading, and critiquing abilities overall.
- How to Write a Literary Analysis
It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature might not always be obvious. Considering how an author addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can help you discover what literature represents about the human experience and condition. With this in mind, consider that your thesis might be a claim about how conflict is represented in a work, whether through character, setting, or tone. This is not a personal reflection on conflict in general or a conflict you face but an analysis of how literary elements are used to express a conflict in a given literary work—in this case, a short story.
The literary analysis should be organized around your rough draft and thesis statement. Your thesis is the controlling idea of the entire essay. In the Week List of Writing Prompts( Please use Prompt 1 ). You also identified a short story to analyze from the List of Literary Works ( Please use Prompt 1 ) .
- Assignment Instructions
In this assignment, you will refine that thesis and essay even further and develop your argument. You are required to incorporate your instructor’s feedback in your Final Paper and to take peer feedback into consideration.
In your paper,- Create a detailed introduction that contains a thesis that offers a debatable claim based on one of the prompts on the list.
- Apply critical thought by analyzing the primary source you selected from the approved List of Literary Works. Avoid summary and personal reflection.
- Develop body paragraphs that contain clear topic sentences and examples that support the argument.
- Write a conclusion that reaffirms the thesis statement and includes a summary of the key ideas in essay.
- Apply your knowledge of literary elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt. Reference the list of literary elements found in Week Two of the course and discussion forums.
- Incorporate research from the primary and secondary sources.
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LITERARY ANALYSIS
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Introduction
In ‘What you Paw I will Redeem’ by Sherman Alexie, Jackson is primarily the main
character in the story. The story is about Jackson who narrates the story from the first person.
The story portrays Jackson as a loving and caring man and regardless of being a homeless man;
he is portrayed to be a good-hearted man. He nice to everyone in his life and tries to assist the
people he comes across in any way he can. Sherman uses the character of Jackson, his
accomplices, and other characters in the story to portray the hardships faced by the homeless
people and more so minority groups in the society (Alexie, 2003). As Jackson and his friends
walk past a pawn shop that Jackson is certain he has never seen it there before, Jackson sees
powwow regalia that he is certain belonged to his grandmother but is certain it was stolen from
her. Jackson perceives the regalia to be personal to him and his only way of reconnecting with
what he would otherwise consider to be his family. Before spotting the regalia, Jackson had no
purpose in life; he was just like any other ordinary homeless man who spends the little he had on
food as well as alcohol. However, after spotting the regalia and being given an opportunity by
the pawn shop owner to b...
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