Final Draft Due:\u00a0Saturday July 31, 11:59 p.m., uploaded to Canvas as a Word document
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Length:\u00a05-6 pages plus Works Cited page; there is no need to do outside research
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Format:\u00a0MLA essay format (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt., 1 inch margins)
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Value of this Essay:\u00a0\u00a0this essay counts for 25% of your final grade
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Your second paper must make an argument about Margaret Atwood\u2019s\u00a0Oryx and Crake. You have two options for this assignment.\u00a0Choose one or the other; do not do both.
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OPTION 1 \u2013 Develop Your Own Prompt:\u00a0If you choose this option, you must run your idea by me over email or by text.\u00a0Identify a set of textual echoes or a productive tension in Margaret Atwood\u2019s\u00a0Oryx and Crake. Analyze and make an argument about the significance of the\u00a0textual echoes\u00a0in and for the text. Perform a\u00a0close reading\u00a0that offers a claim in response to the textual echoes you have identified. Your reading must be based on textual evidence, so craft an interpretation that is focused on several selected passages, considering how these passages relate to form (narrative, syntactical, or structural). You cannot, and should not try to take account of every moment in which your key word appears. Instead, focus on a repeated theme, image, or word. This will require you to make choices about which textual data is most convincing for your argument. Be sure to offer a\u00a0debatable claim\u00a0(argument, thesis) in response to the problem you have identified.
Here are some questions to consider, which you may choose to address or take another direction. You need not answer all of the questions. These are thinking points to get you started. Alternatively, you may think of your own questions and pursue those instead:
What evidence suggests that these details, passages, and moments are connected, and that we are meant to think of them in connection to each other?
What is interesting or important about each of these textual echoes?
How does seeing them as connected open up new ways to read them?
What\u2019s at stake for the text by including these details, passages, or moments?
How does the key word, textual echo, detail, passage, or moment serve the author\u2019s argument as you understand it?
How does focusing on the key word you\u2019ve chosen suggest a new way of understanding the text? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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