You will be given a 5 minute story review and prep prior to today's lecture. The idea is to maximize the effectiveness of my lecture in preparing you to write your paper over this week/weekend.
1. What might become the thesis of your LA paper?
2. What basic components of the story or key concepts does your paper plan to explore?
3. Write down two or three quotations from the story that your family has annotated. Why? Could you use this for your paper? Why or why not?
4. Do a quick resource review. In other words, what 3rd party sources or research do you plan (or have you) used to write this paper?
Formal Writing #7: Lit Analysis on "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Three to five pages. APA formatted sources. ALL CREDIBLE SOURCES/TRY to have ALL academic sources. Put writing number in the header. Due next Monday.
LECTURE NOTES:
The overall goals of O'Connor's work:
1. To define the grotesque both as a literary device and a way to emphasize a spirituality vision; to recognize how the grotesque relates to realism, even humor.
2. To develop genre known as "Southern Gothic," in order to explore its dark history and "grotesqueness" of old customs.
3. To juxtapose and parallel her characters and situations until a thematic importance surfaces.
4. To challenge, even interrogate, Christianity in search of the idea of grace. "In my stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of turning
Notes from class can be found here.
And don't forget about that literary thesis writing handout from a while back.
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