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Research Topics (4-5 pages 1500 Word Minimum, 4 Sources)
Use the documents in the Critical Essay Resources folder in Canvas to help you.
For this paper, you need to:
Create a paragraph after your introduction where you connect your story
to the author’s life and/or historical events that might have influenced
the author’s writing.
For Example: How did Hemingway’s career as a write influence the narrator in “Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
How did a boating accident influence Crane’s “The Open Boat”?
1. Pick any work we’ve read so far, and create an essay about it(some sample topics are listed further down this document). 2. Once you have a topic, Use these elements to create a thesis
statement for your Critical Essay.
3. For example: “The Open Boat” is about __man versus nature___ because of the imagery (paragraph 1), plot (paragraph 2), and characters (paragraph 3).
SYMBOLISM: concrete things standing for larger and more abstract ideas. For instance, the American flag may symbolize freedom, or a dead flower my symbolize mortality.
PLOT: the relationships and patterns of events. Even a poem has a plot—for instance, a change in mood from grief to resignation.
IMAGERY: word pictures or details involving the senses of sight, sound, touch smell, taste.
PERSONIFICATION: When an author gives human traits to an animal or an inanimate object (the desk is sleeping).
CHARACTERS: the people the author creates, including the narrator of a story of the speaker of a poem.
THEME: the main ideas about human experience suggested by the work as whole. A theme is neither a plot (what happens) nor a subject (such as mourning or marriage). Rather it is what the author says about the subject.