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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, What you Pawn I will Redeem by Sherman Alexie). You also identified a short story to analyze from the List of Literary Works ( Please use Prompt 1, What you Pawn I will Redeem by Sherman Alexie ) .

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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What You Pawn, I Will Redeem
Human beings typically have a never-ending urge to be complete and perhaps strive
interminably to fill the voids within them with money, booze, and relationships in order to
brighten their lives. The short story, “What you pawn I will redeem” by Sherman Alexis revolves
around the character of Jackson Jackson in his quest for redemption by acquiring back his stolen
grandmother’s dancing regalia. Jackson stumbles on numerous hurdles as he tries to fit in the
culture by trying to win back the regalia. Jackson is engrossed by emptiness from the start of the
narrative as he even begins to set clear of his mental problem and admits that he has been
vanishing “piece by piece”. He is aware of his internal conflict as he is disturbed by the fact that
he has been alienated from his heritage. At first, he seems to have no purpose in life but he is
awakened by the sight of his grandmother’s regalia in the pawnshop. He feels an instant
connection with the regalia. Although it had been stolen many years ago, the need to get it back
in honor of his grandmother is overwhelming. While the Sherman uses flashbacks and everpresent point of view in the narrative, it is the series of conflicts throughout the story that drives
the story and capture the minds of the reader as the main protagonist tries to achieve his...


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