A comparison between the short story and the 1962 Film of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Prompt: Write a researched and documented essay comparing the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” with the 1962 film of the same title.
In your essay, establish the criteria by which you will evaluate the film against the story. Then thoroughly examine several scenes from both the story and the film in order to evaluate the effectiveness of each. You may come to some conclusions after your analysis.
The paper should run about six pages with an additional page for Works Cited. You must have at least six outside sources from the Lib Guide.
You will be graded on the following criteria.
Title: The title should be appropriate for the essay and invite and interest reader to read the essay. Your own title is not enclosed within quotes or underlines. It is presented in plain font.
MLA Format
The heading, page numbers, title, and spacing are in MLA format. Each paragraph is indented. There are no abbreviations and everything is spelled correctly.
Thesis Statement and Rationale: There is a clear thesis statement, which include a rationale or reason for the statement. Please highlight the thesis is yellow.
Summary of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
You can’t expect that your reader has also read the story you are writing about, so you include a short summary of the story. The summary should include the facts of the story without commentary or evaluation. The summary should be one paragraph in length.
Summary and Details of the 1962 Film
Scene-by-Scene Analysis and Evaluation of the film against the story. You should examine several scenes/sections of both the story and film. How do they compare? What does you research contribute to this discussion? Be thorough in your discussion.
Conclusion: Here you sum up the pros and cons of each and come to some conclusions.
Effective Incorporation of outside Sources into the Discussion: A minimum of six sources is required. Please introduce the source, establish the validity of the source and briefly summarize the source. Only placing the last name of the author of the source in parentheses is not enough
