Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Homework due 4/11 or 4/12

Please complete this assignment on the back of the paper that we started outlining the "attempts to shield loved ones prompt"

Prompt 1:

Choose an implausible or strikingly unrealistic incident or character in a work of fiction or drama of recognized literary merit. Write an essay that explains how the incident or character is related to the more realistic of plausible elements in the rest of the work. Avoid plot summary.

I have chosen to write this essay on the "ghost child Catherine" that Lockwood encounters at the beginning of the novel. Please complete the assignment based on this.

STEP 0: Number off what the prompt is asking you to do.

Plot references:

Brainstorm a list of all other relevant plot references that you think would fit in this essay.

Analytical Ideas:

Brainstorm a list of all INTERESTING (see slideshow in previous post) things that you could say about this topic.

Connection:

Use a connecting phrase to connect these ideas to a MOWAAW statement.

Prompt 2:

Ironically, sometimes the circumstances surrounding a character’s death yield important insight into how these characters lived their lives. Select such a death and analyze how the death of this character reveals important insights and helps to develop the meaning of the work as a whole.

I have chosen to write on the death of Catherine. Please complete the assignment based on this.

Repeat the same process as above.

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