OBJECTIVE:
My hope is that you’ll get more practice performing an analysis on a piece of writing. This is a low-risk way to get that practice, which will ultimately help you in more "high stakes" activities, like writing Paper #1.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Please write about what issues and then claims you might want to make about Twain’s story. In other words, you might examine the following questions:
- Is the setting important to this story? Could it have taken place somewhere else?
- Did the main narrator (Twain) change during the course of the story? How?
- How was the language used in this story? Does Twain use repetition? What is the effect of this language use on the reader?
Please write a proposal of 250 to 500 words in which you describe what you might argue in performing a critical analysis of Twain’s short story. Upload your proposal here.