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lila Academic Essay

Prompt: Marilynne Robinson?s Lila faces us with a character who struggles to understand who she is. What experiences, ethical framework, beliefs, and forms of community shape Lila?s identity? How and to what extent does Lila overcome traumatic experiences from the past (loss and betrayal) and forge an identity based on different forms of belonging after she marries reverend Ames? What aspects of her identity stay the same ? and might encourage the reader to think that the relationship between the reverend and Lila is, after all, a relationship between equals?For this essay you will use 2 secondary sources:A. One scholarly or historical newspaper source from the library?s online databases ( ProQuest) on farmers? situation during the Great Depression. B. Wyatt Mason?s New York Times Magazine article ?Saying Grace: The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson.? (1 October 2014).General GuidelinesYour essay should include (an) effective/correctTitle of the essay (i.e., not the assignment title) Introduction Thesis Body paragraphs and topic sentences Conclusion Use of MLA style, including parenthetical citation and a Works Cited pageAs in academic papers generally, your title should hint at your main idea, and your introduction should lead smoothly into the world of the texts you are interpreting (i.e., the short stories you are analyzing) and up to your thesis. Your thesis should make an interesting, specific, and persuasive claim about the story/ies you write about.The body of your paper should contain paragraphs with clear topic sentences that advance your claim 1) with well-chosen textual evidence and 2) with analysis of the text overall as well as of specific passages. There should be smooth connections and transitions between body paragraphs.You should have a Works Cited page with the correct MLA entry for all sources to which you refer, and you should employ correct use of parenthetical citation throughout. Be sure to use your terminology correctly, consulting as necessary either the Oxford English Dictionary, or the Webster?s. Finally, once your revisions are complete, be sure to spend at least half an hour proofreading the paper for stylistic, grammatical and spelling mistakes before submitting and printing the final copy. Goals for this Assignment include exercising students? ability to close-read primary text(s) and advance an original interpretive claim about that/those text(s); deepening students? understanding of a secondary theoretical text and its particular concepts; exercising their skills in using secondary theoretical sources to enrich their interpretations of literature; honing their use of secondary sources in analytical, interpretive writing.

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