Writing a literature analysis

 Choose one of the short stories from the above module, Writing about Literature. Make sure you have read the work thoroughly and understand the story’s text. 1.Create the introduction for your essay. Your introduction must identify the author and title of the work, Provide a brief summary and main characters Underline your thesis statement. In other words, what specifically will you focus on regarding the text of the short story, for example a character, symbols, or structure. Review the information on writing an effective thesis statement. Hint: Using a supporting thesis statement may be less challenging for this writing project. 2.List two (2) secondary sources that you will use to support your thesis. A secondary source is information that a critic or writer has written about the short selected short story. You may find it necessary to adjust the thesis in light of the resources available to you. The secondary sources MUST be written with the appropriate MLA documentation. 3.Submit your assignment on two separate sheets: Introduction and Works Cited page. Remember to include the MLA heading for the page. EXAMPLE: Review the sample introduction and sources included on the Works Cited page Disappointment “The Story of an Hour” is a short story in which Kate Chopin, the author, presents an often unheard of view of marriage. Mrs. Louise Mallard, Chopin’s main character, experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she learns of her husband’s death. Later, when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband, Brently, still lives, she knows that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment kills Mrs. Mallard. Published in the late eighteen hundreds, the oppressive nature of marriage in “The Story of an Hour” may well be a reflection of, though not exclusive to, that era. Works Cited Charters, Ann. “The Elements of Fiction.” The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford, St. Martin’s, 2003. 1003-1015. Davis, Sara de Saussure. “Kate Chopin, February 8, 1851-August 22, 1904.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 12: American Realist and Naturalist. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Ed. Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 59-71 Rpt. Gale Literature Resource Center [online subscription database]. The Gale Group, 2002.