I have written down all the requirments. it will be a story named as “The yellow wallpaper” which is easily findable on google but i will attach the link as well just for you. please make sure its full 5 pages without the cited page. and take quotes from the story plus on the top of that i want the font as times New roman 12 as well as double lined. it requires 4 sources. 2 from my college which is mohawk valley community college. and just make sure you answer the 3 questions below in my analysis paper which are all in step 5.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
here’s the link to the story which is
“The yellow wallpaper.
the link below is for the mvcc (Mohawk Valley Community College) library database. and as i mentioned before i 2 sources are required from the library.
https://mvcc.libguides.com/az.php
What is it
Literary analysis, also known as literary criticism, is a close reading and interpretation of a literary text. It carefully examines the elements of a literary text for both meaning and significance. For the essay, these elements include setting, plot, style, tone, point of view (narrative perspective), characterization, symbol, theme, and context (social, cultural, and historical). The purpose of your literary analysis is to persuade a reader that your interpretation of a text is valid.
One of the ways in which a literary analysis achieves this is through the articulation, support, and development of a specific idea or claim. To put this in simple terms, your essay should contain a clearly stated thesis (claim), a coherent structure, and an abundance of relevant evidence (textual and otherwise).
HOW TO BEGIN:
Step 1: Decide which text (or texts) you would like to write about. Remember you must choose from the stories or poems we discussed this semester.
Step 2: Decide which texts to include in your discussion; this may change as the paper progresses, but you should begin with a clear idea of which texts you would like to include in your analysis.
Step 3: Read and then reread–several times–the text or texts you have chosen. In order to say something meaningful about a text, you need to understand it. As one critic relates, you need to “have a sure sense of what the work itself is like, how its parts function, what ideas it expresses, how it creates particular effects, and what your responses are.” In short, read, reread, and then when you think you are done, read some more.
Step 4: After you are comfortable with your knowledge of the text (or texts), the next step is to develop an angle of analysis on how you want to approach and organize your paper. There are several different ways to organize a literary research paper, but this paper will require you to focus on the following organizing principles:
A. Literary Elements: The analysis will include a focused discussion on one or more of the following: setting, speaker, symbolism, irony, imagery, tone, language, etc.
B. Themes: The analysis will be organized around a theme, such as death, life, love, race, gender, class, cultural identity, etc., generally includes a focused discussion on the role a particular theme plays in several pieces of literature.
C. Critical Approaches: Whether you knew it or not, you adopted a specific approach to analyzing literature in the essays you wrote for class, and in our discussions. Some of you focused on how the historical, political, and/or social context informed the work; aka the “historical” approach to interpretation, or the “critical” approach to interpreting literature, such as feminist, Marxist, pluralist, structuralist, poststructuralist, sociological, biographical, etc.
Step 5: Consider and explore these three questions, which must be answered in your essay:
1) What can literature teach us about how people think, act, dream, and rebel?
2) What are some of the commonalities and differences that can help us to observe as we travel across time and space?
3) In what ways can the text act both as a mirror of its own time period and also as a model for literary achievement?
REQUIREMENTS:
The literary analysis must be 5 FULL pages in length.
A minimum of 4 scholarly sources (two from mohawk valley community college MVCC library) are required for your research.
WORKS CITED PAGE – This is not included in the 5 pages.
SOME RULES FOR WRITING:
Include the title(s) and author(s) you are discussing in the first or second paragraph of your paper.
Assume your reader has read the stories or poems you are discussing but does not remember them in detail. In other words, be sure to provide your readers with enough information (textual examples, etc.) so he or she can follow your analysis.
When you directly quote something, make sure you incorporate the quote into your own analysis. Do not simply stick the quote in the middle of your writing. You must introduce it and then comment on it. In addition, make sure the context of the quote is clear, why it is important, and what it is helping to prove.
If you are using a quote that is longer than four (4) lines (when you type it in your paper), indent the entire quotation and remove the quotation marks.
Use quotation marks around the titles of stories
Underline titles of books
Don’t plagiarize. Plagiarism is grounds for failing the class and for possible dismissal from the college. Remember to cite a source even if you don’t take the sentence(s) word for word.
