You will write a 750-word (approximately 3 pages) essay that compares and contrasts 2 stories from the Fiction Unit. Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the below guidelines for developing your paper topic and review the Fiction Essay Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of your essay, and organize your ideas by developing a 1-page thesis statement and outline for your essay. Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single Microsoft Word document using current MLA, APA, or Turabian style (whichever corresponds to your degree program); check your Perrines Literature textbook, the Harbrace Essentials Handbook and/or the link contained in the Assignment Instructions Folder to ensure correct citation format is used.
Your Fiction Essay must include a title page, a thesis/outline page, and the essay itself, followed by a works cited/references/bibliography page listing any primary and/or secondary texts cited in your essay.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic
The Writing about Literature section of your Perrines Literature textbook (pp. 154) and the Writing section of Harbrace Essentials (pp. 112, 1516, 1821, 2228) provide helpful pointers for writing your literary essay and for academic writing in general. Be sure that you have read these sections before doing any further work for this assignment. Take particular notice of the examples of fiction essays on pp. 3843 of Perrines Literature textbook.
Choose 2 of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay:
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Also, at least 1 of these elements of fiction must be the focus of your essay:
Conflict/Plot/Structure
Characterization
Setting
Theme/Authors Purposes
Point of View, and/
Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol/Imagery
If you need help focusing your essay, ask yourself questions that correspond to your chosen element(s).
Conflict/Plot/Structure (This is not a summary of the stories)
What are the basic conflicts? How do these conflicts build tension and lead to major, complicated incidents and climactic moment(s)?
- What are the ways in which each major character experiences conflict (either with self, with other characters, or with the social and/or physical environment)?
How are the conflicts resolved? Do the protagonists succeed in achieving their goals?
Which character receives your deepest sympathy and why?
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