Due within the next 36 hours is a 4-5 page, double-spaced paper covering the follow:

We have discussed Rachel, Faulkner, Bambara, Hawthorne, Conrad, Joyce, Gass, and (some) Percy at length in class. You have written about some of these works, but only informally and tentatively. Now is your opportunity to rigorously analyze a work of literature.

For the first formal paper, write an essay built around the most important passage in one of the texts that we have read so far. In your studied interpretation, what is the most significant passage? Why is it central to the core conflicts, character, and meaning of the story? What issues does it embody? In other words, using this key passage, you should write a paper that 1) interprets the meaning of the work via 2) explicating the fundamental conflicts and basic concerns of the text.

Ohh Joy. We shall see how it turns out. HA!