Quote (Greapper @ Nov 17 2009 05:27pm)
less troll, more work!!
simply impossible. as im using the net looking for short stories but they all suck
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Responding to Literature Essay Prompt
Your textbook tells you “[y]our purposes are to observe, feel, remember, understand, and relate the work of literature to your life: What is happening? What memories does it trigger? How does it make you feel?” (Reid 610).
For this essay, choose a short story or a poem (“work”) that you can relate to and that helps define a moment in your life. Write an essay in which you explain how it helps define that moment in your life. Use specific examples from the work and your life moment to support your thesis.
Read the work and annotate or interact with the work. This will be turned in with the final draft.
Introduction: Introduce the work and the author. Give a very brief one or two sentence summary of the work you have chosen and of the moment you are about to relate the work to, ending the introduction with your thesis statement.
Body paragraphs: In these paragraphs draw upon specific evidence from the work and the moment to develop and support your thesis statement. I suppose you can look at this as if the plot and characters are similar to a defining moment in your life. You may want to answer some questions with your essay, such as “Does the character have the same reaction as I did to a similar situation? Does the character resolve or fail to resolve a similar conflict and how does that relate to my defining moment? Does the character learn the same lesson I did in a similar situation? What is the lesson? What can I learn from the work to help me with a similar situation?”
Conclusion: Wrap up the essay with a summary of the points you have made in your essay, ending with a sentence that re-states your thesis statement.
We will conference on this paper. Remember to bring a finished, typed copy of your paper to the time you choose to conference with me. Conferences always take place in my office.