Think of the works that “moved” you the most–positively or negatively–and brainstorm about how and why they affected you.
Write a 5+ page paper using at least one critical essay. Cite your sources using MLA or APA format.
Create a valid and substantiated thesis, one that reflects your careful thoughts about the story. Your paper should defend, argue, or assert a position using SPECIFIC events, dialogue, and description from the text.
Use your critical articles sparingly to set up a position that you will agree with (and expand), disagree with (and show why), or to diverge from in some way. Consider different critical approaches such as these:
Biographical criticism—
Discuss how the story reflects or is influenced by the life of the author.
To speak of “Feminism” as a theory is already a reduction. However, in terms of its theory (rather than as its reality as a historical movement in effect for some centuries) feminism might be categorized into three general groups:
