Your essay will present and examine a significant theme found in the primary text and explain how your understanding of the theme answers the question “So what” That is, how/why does the idea you are pursuing matter to an understanding of the story or to thinking about the world.

To answer this question, you will try to connect the theme of the story you choose to ideas relevant to societal, cultural, or historical factors. The relationship between the theme in the primary source and the context into which you place this theme is the thesis you will be supporting throughout the body of the paper.

To help you do this work, you will use secondary source material. While you must use the critical text the instructor paired the story, you can use additional sources of you wish. These materials must be gathered from literature databases, books, magazines, newspapers or specific personal experience.

In the body of the essay, establish ideas related to the ideas addressed in the introduction and cite evidence from the primary and secondary sources. Work to explain how the ideas and evidence offer a meaningful reading of or connection to the societal, cultural, or historical evidence that will make up the larger context of the paper.

Your conclusion ought to summarize the relevant ideas in the paper and explain what you learned in the course of writing the paper.

The essay much be approximately 3-4 pages double-spaced in 12-point font and follow MLA formatting and include a Work Cited page. The essay must also have an original title that reflects its idea or its argument.

“The Story of an Hour” will be the story I am doing, written by Kate Chopin

The secondary source should be the essay written by Lawrence L. Berkove. It’s the essay that reflects “The Story of an Hour”