{"id":69656,"date":"2021-11-02T06:11:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/02\/story-theme-and-tone\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:11:18","slug":"story-theme-and-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/02\/story-theme-and-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Theme and Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare your reactions to &#8220;Jesus Shaves,&#8221; on the one hand, to &#8220;The Management of Grief&#8221; and &#8220;Interpreter of Maladies.&#8221;\u00a0 How does your personal relationship to the various cultural traditions depicted in the three stories, especially those of each protagonist, affect your response to each story?\u00a0 How does the narration (and tone of the narrator) of each story contribute to the articulation of its theme? In your analysis, make specific references to the story&#8217;s characters and scenes.\u00a0 If you choose to quote from a story, please follow the citation guidelines on our lecture PDF and at the bottom of this prompt.Please write at least 600 words (200 words per story).\u00a0 This assignment makes up 5% of your final grade (5 points).\u00a0 Enjoy!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please note:1.\u00a0 When you quote from our readings, please refer to the format listed in this section.\u00a0 Here is a brief explanation of how to Cite Fiction using MLA style: Citing Short Stories &#8211; Readers should be able to move from your own words to the words you quote from a source without feeling a jolt. So introduce all your quotes with signal phrases, usually including the author\u2019s name, to prepare readers for the source:In &#8220;The Metamorphosis,&#8221; Franz Kafka describes how Gregor Samsa, the story&#8217;s protagonist, is grotesquely transformed &#8220;into a monstrous verminous bug&#8221; (1).In &#8220;The Metamorphosis,&#8221; Gregor Samsa awakens from a turbulent night&#8217;s sleep and discovers that he has been transformed &#8220;into a monstrous verminous bug&#8221; (Kafka 1).Please note that MLA style for fiction does not include any form of punctuation! Just the page number &#8211; or the author\u2019s name and page number!\u00a0 Use a signal phrase and transition to introduce your quote, put quotation marks around the story title and the quoted lines, and cite the source at the end of the sentence.2.\u00a0 Break up your ideas into multiple paragraphs.\u00a0 Each story analysis that is written as one paragraph will be marked down.3.\u00a0 Make sure that your quotes make up less than 20% of your word count!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare your reactions to &#8220;Jesus Shaves,&#8221; on the one hand, to &#8220;The Management of Grief&#8221; and &#8220;Interpreter of Maladies.&#8221;\u00a0 How does your personal relationship to the various cultural traditions depicted in the three stories, especially those of each protagonist, affect your response to each story?\u00a0 How does the narration (and tone of the narrator) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-69656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}