Writing Assignment #2 Literary Analysis on question- Is Religion to blame for Paul’s reckless lifestyle?Description:Pose an interpretive question about a short story and respond to it analytically, showing your readers where and how the text of the story supports your interpretation. Use the introduction of your essay to pose your interpretive question, showing how it is both problematic and significant. Your one-sentence summary answer to that question will serve as your thesis statement. Your task in this assignment is not to discover the right way to interpret the text, but to show why your analysis is plausible and can be supported by textual detail.Process:Start by reading the short story closely, looking beyond the surface of the actual events to consider what else is being said. Mark passages that interest you and write in the margins as you go to note details, which you think may be important to understanding the story. Often students will simply mark pages in the book with sticky notes or I used to simply put a small paper clip on pages I thought were interesting.Next pose an interpretive question about the story, showing how what you have read is both problematic and significant. In other words, consider what lies under the surface of the details. I’ve had you consider a couple of angles already, which you could continue to explore: One dealt with the interactions between characters in the story and the other asked you to consider what else fly fishing might mean in the story. You may use those as a model for your own thinking or simply follow them if they speak to you.Once you have a question you would like to explore, consider what your broad answer to that question is and look for passages that support and complicate that statement.As you reread those passages, do a little writing about each to form a rough draft.Revise and edit that draft so it follows the form of closed writing laid out in Chapter 18.Resources:Chapter 11 Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Pearson RevelChapter 18 Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Pearson RevelChapters H3 and H4 PearsonMLA Format for papers—week six moduleRequirements:1000 words or approximately 3-4 pages formatted according to MLA styleTwo to four quotations cited according to MLA style
