Instructions
Please submit your Research paper here. Attach your assignment as a Word document. See below for details.
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Introduction:
This final assignment represents an opportunity for you to expand on the literary concepts that you have been exposed to in this course. Further, it will allow you to analyze, comparatively and in depth, two of the novels from our syllabus.
Requirements:
Choose two novels from our syllabus and write a comparative paper that addresses formal properties and writing style in relation to a central theme that is present in both novels.
Your paper should have introductory and concluding paragraphs, a clear argumentative thesis, at least four paragraphs of development, and proper MLA in-text citation and a Works Cited page. (See the Orientation Module for MLA guidelines.) As this is a research paper, your work should be supported not only with relevant textual details from both novels but also with a minimum of four secondary sources, two of which may be scholarly articles from the lesson content. Please use academic papers only for your research. Your paper should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words. Please let me know which books you choose to compare and I will get you the material as well as the lesson content related.
Suggested areas of focus:
Linear and nonlinear storytelling
Narrative point of view
Innovative forms in mainstream fiction
Description of setting / recurring imagery
Authenticity and artifice
Tone and mood / use of language
Some common themes:
Trauma
Terrorism
Family relations / family politics
Class friction
Environmental anxieties / resource anxieties
Length: Between 2,000 and 2,500 words
Format: MLA
