Description
COMPARISON ESSAY
“A Rose for Emily” and “The Loons”
on one of the following topics:
1: Every Story Involves a Difficult Physical Journey
2: The Main Character Sets His/Her Own Laws
3: Every Main Character is Beaten, Disgraced, or Damaged
4: Nature (Plants, Animals, Bodies of Water, Weather) is Dangerous
COMPARISON ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
“A Rose for Emily” and “The Loons”
--on one of the following topics:
1: Every Story Involves a Difficult Physical Journey
2: The Main Character Sets His/Her Own Laws
3: Every Main Character is Beaten, Disgraced, or Damaged
4: Nature (Plants, Animals, Bodies of Water, Weather) is Dangerous
Additional Instructions:
1: Write approximately 1000 words. Use full-sentence, full-paragraph form throughout.
2: Be sure to build your essay around a central thesis, or statement of the specific differences and similarities between the two stories that you will try to prove. State that thesis in your opening paragraph. Then, in developing each argument in the following paragraphs, support it with specific, quoted examples from the two stories, and—most important—your remarks on those examples.
3: In your essay, also make specific reference, with supporting quotes, to 2 or 3 scholarly articles. Use APA Style for page references after each quote from a scholarly article, as well as for quotes from the stories themselves: e.g., (Faulkner, 4). Be sure to connect what the scholarly article says, to what you are trying to say about each story. Follow exact APA Style for both the in-text citations and your “References” list at the end of your essay.
4: Avoid long quotes from the stories or the scholarly articles (that is, anything over 25 words).
5: Do not write two separate essays within your paper—that is, 500 words about one story, then 500 about the other. An effective comparison proceeds ‘point-by-point’, that is, by moving back and forth regularly between the two readings being compared.
6: Give your essay an interesting title, with the main words capitalized.