Goals
Write an in-depth, college-level literary analysis of short stories written by Women Writers of Color and/or 21st Century writers.
Identify elements of fiction and analyze their use in two short stories by women of color writers and/or 21st Century writers.
Connect the two stories based on a key principle.
Interpret how these two short stories reflect tensions in our society.
Prompt
For this essay, you are asked to develop an analysis of two short stories from this list of short stories by women of color writers and/or 21st Century writers. These are the short stories for this paper. You are to preview the stories and select two to read and to go deeper with your analysis.
Short Stories by Women of Color
Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek”
https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Woman-Hollering-Creek-Cisneros-Sandra.pdf
Short Stories by 21st Century Writers
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Fatherland”
The main prompt for this paper assignment is to make connections between the two short stories you have selected and to analyze and interpret how the themes (central conflicts) in those short stories reflect the central tensions in our society.
You should first consider each story on its own by analyzing its story elements like narrative point of view, setting, characters, and central conflict or tension.
Secondly you want to compare the themes and story elements in the two short stories. You want to focus on a key bridge concept that connects the two short stories.
You want to show how the stories reflect tensions in our society. How does the key bridge concept that connects the two short stories connect to our real world, to society?
Textual Evidence (Quotations)
This is an essay of literary criticism so you are expected to include textual evidence (quotations from the short stories). You’ll need to offer some analysis of particular passages, but you’ll be making an argument about the two short stories and the key bridge concept that connects them.
Formal Requirements
This is a formal essay, so you are expected to include the following components.
Introduction
Thesis Statement
Body Paragraphs
Transition/Topic Sentences
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