Essay #2: Due Monday, January 11, 2010

Essay #2: Due Monday, January 11, 2010

Psychological Criticism / Point of View

Paper Guidelines

8.5x11-inch paper

1-inch margins

Typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font

Minimum three (3) pages; maximum four (4) pages

Minimum of three (3) primary sources, cited in MLA format; attach the list to your essay on a separate piece of paper

Left-hand corner of paper, single spaced:

FIRST AND LAST NAME

January 11, 2010

Professor Melinda Roberts

Short Story: Wintersession 2010

Centered Title (all caps and bolded):

PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON NARRATOR'S POINT OF VIEW

• IMPORTANT REMINDER: Papers that do not meet the guidelines will not be accepted and will be given a score of zero (0).
• IMPORTANT REMINDER: Papers are due at the start of class, i.e., 9:30 A.M., on January 11, 2010.  Late papers will not be accepted and will be given a score of zero (0).

Essay Topic:

Use the Psychological Criticism on pages 689-693 of our text.  Choose a story from the list below and analyze how point of view contributes to the story's overall meaning.  Discuss the narrator's psychology and speculate "on what lies underneath the text -- the unspoken or perhaps even unspeakable memories, motives, and fears that covertly shape the work."  Come up with a thesis sentence, and back up your argument with specific observations about the text.  Incorporate at least five quotations, and document them, as explained in the writing chapters at the end of the book.

• A & P
• The Story of an Hour
• Her Letters
  
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Why I Live at the P.O.
• A Worn Path
• A Good Man is Hard to Find
  

• IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure to incorporate all parts of the essay topic into the essay to receive full points.
• This essay has a value of 75 points
• 50% of points assigned to analysis of point of view
• 50% of points assigned to discussion of narrator's psychology

HELPFUL LINK TO STORY RESOURCES:

A Good Man is Hard to Find: http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/AGoodMan.html