For this assignment, you must produce a complete analytical essay with an introduction, three body paragraphs and a conclusion, all of which must follow the essay guidelines discussed in class and described in this course’s Essay Assignment Manual. The essay must be based on one of the essay topics made available for this assignment, its thesis statement providing a clear, direct and specitic answer to one of the questions in the relevant box on the next page of this document.
Each body paragraph in your essay must focus explicitly on its own distinct literary element* (such as a significant character, parody, symbol or event) used in Green Grass, Running Water to convey the message identified in your thesis. Each body paragraph must also provide a minimum of two distinct pieces of specific textual evidence related to that element and its relationship to your thesis.
Additionally, you are expected to format this essay according to MLA guidelines, which includes double-spacing, proper in-text citation, a work cited list and a title. For clarification on essay titles, see the relevant sections of this course’s Essay Assignment Manual. For information on MLA formatting and citation in general, here is a link to the college library’s guide: https://libguides.marianopolis.edu/citation/mla9. For an
annotated example of what this essay should look like in terms of formatting, see the third page of this document
*AN ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT – THE INTERTEXTUAL COMPONENT:
In this essay, you must focus at least one of your three body paragraphs on the analysis of a parody, an allusion or a reference in Green Grass, Running Water, and how it illustrates the dynamic you have identified in your thesis. The parody. reference or allusion vou choose for this purpose must be pointina to a specific story or genre of story from literature, mythology, popular culture or religion (see the relevant box on the next page of this document for recommendations).
To meet this requirement, a body paragraph must include some specific, relevant evidence of a particular parody, allusion or reference in Green Grass, Running Water itself, as well as at least one specific piece of evidence from a secondary source to help clarify and/or expand upon the significance of the parody, allusion or reference in auestion. You must use one of the following as a secondarv source for this
assianment:
• a scholarly article or book containing professional, peer-reviewed academic analysis of the specific story or genre reterenced, alluded to or parodied,
an authoritative plot summary of the specific story referenced, alluded to or parodied (such as those provided by Masterplots),
or the story referenced, alluded to or parodied itself.
However, keep in mind that any evidence you pull from a secondary source must be as specific as the evidence you are expected to pull from Green Grass. Running Water. and it must be integrated in the same wav. That means that vou must quote. paraphrase or summarize specific. relevant details from vour secondary source, and you must bot present those details in context and explain their relevance to the argument you are making. A broad overview of the plot of a novel or quick summation of a scholarly article’s overall thesis will be considered too vague to function as actual evidence in this assignment.
Take note: the secondary source you are required to use for this assignment needs to provide helpful information about a text or genre referenced, parodied or alluded to in Green Grass, Running Water, not about Green Grass, Running Water itself. You are strongly discouraged from looking up or using secondary sources on Green Grass, running water, as the point of this assignment is to determine how well you are able to analyze King’s novel on your own, with only the materials and discussions provided in the context of this
course for inspiration and guldance
