Even though society thinks that literature is outdated, lost in times, and unmemorable, but in actuality, if read and dissected it provides substance and truthfulness to the problematic world that we live in. During this semester in Writing 102, Mr. Kehoe opened my mind on how revealing and ingenuous the work of literature truly are, and pushing for meaningful work encapsulated around the short stories provided. Enjoyable throughout the semester, we were assigned three interesting and mi¬nd consuming essay assignments: Analysis Essay, the Synthesis Essay, and the Research Essay, and these three essays were milestone points in my Writing 102 career. The Analysis Essay was first of the three major essays in the class, and this essay focused
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In this essay I had to choose between two short stories, and I choose “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edger Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” The purpose of the essay was to compare and contrast the two short stories chosen and analyze which essay has most effect on the terms of presenting true human nature. Honestly, this was the first essay analytical essay I have written in about a year! I was expecting to be completely out of line in terms of developmental and creative aspects of the essay, and including grammar. On, top of that I am very dyslexic and writing is the hardest thing for me to do. I took these things into consideration, and I planned a brilliant method for brainstorming and the developmental phase of the creation of the essay. First, take both stories find as many potential points for the thesis statements, and then combine them into a three part essay. Then I re-read the stories to find any deeper meanings, and then took to the web to see if I left anything out. Then I wrote the …show more content…
The second part of the essay was to find a(n) peer-review journal related to the short story chosen; to help strengthen the thesis point. The story I chose was “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H Lawrence, and the main theme chosen from the story was greed and want. That this greed and the need to have increasingly more is the true downfall of society. This ‘want’ that is idolized in American society puts burdens on the middle/low class America; that they achieve this ‘want’, but the end result is complete financial annihilation. Sadly, this theme or main point that I was trying to drag out in this essay was not supported by the peer-review journal authors on the Ole Miss database, and so I had a dismal article that was slightly related to the theme at hand, and weirdly none of the articles had any correlation to this primary theme in the story. This poor article selection resulted in me receiving a poor grade on essay two. I understood that the primary purpose of the essay was for the support of an outside source to be included in the essay, but I stood firm for the theme I wanted to write about; the consequence was a bad grade, but the content was superb in my opinion, but the article on the other hand was not (but there was no other
In this essay I had to choose between two short stories, and I choose “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edger Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” The purpose of the essay was to compare and contrast the two short stories chosen and analyze which essay has most effect on the terms of presenting true human nature. Honestly, this was the first essay analytical essay I have written in about a year! I was expecting to be completely out of line in terms of developmental and creative aspects of the essay, and including grammar. On, top of that I am very dyslexic and writing is the hardest thing for me to do. I took these things into consideration, and I planned a brilliant method for brainstorming and the developmental phase of the creation of the essay. First, take both stories find as many potential points for the thesis statements, and then combine them into a three part essay. Then I re-read the stories to find any deeper meanings, and then took to the web to see if I left anything out. Then I wrote the …show more content…
The second part of the essay was to find a(n) peer-review journal related to the short story chosen; to help strengthen the thesis point. The story I chose was “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H Lawrence, and the main theme chosen from the story was greed and want. That this greed and the need to have increasingly more is the true downfall of society. This ‘want’ that is idolized in American society puts burdens on the middle/low class America; that they achieve this ‘want’, but the end result is complete financial annihilation. Sadly, this theme or main point that I was trying to drag out in this essay was not supported by the peer-review journal authors on the Ole Miss database, and so I had a dismal article that was slightly related to the theme at hand, and weirdly none of the articles had any correlation to this primary theme in the story. This poor article selection resulted in me receiving a poor grade on essay two. I understood that the primary purpose of the essay was for the support of an outside source to be included in the essay, but I stood firm for the theme I wanted to write about; the consequence was a bad grade, but the content was superb in my opinion, but the article on the other hand was not (but there was no other