Writing Homework Help
ENG 1102 Troy University Flannery O Connor The Misfit Literary Analysis
Below I have attached my outline for the essay and two of the scholarly articles you must use these.
In this essay, you are asked to analyze ANY short story from our textbook. Your task is to write a detailed literary analysis of this story. This essay relies mainly on textual support from the primary text and includes at least 3 secondary sources that supports/sustains the student’s argument. Do not confuse “critical analysis” with “plot summary.” The goal is to develop, sustain, and advance a thesis based on a critique of the primary text which is supported in part by at least 3 scholarly articles from the Troy Library databases.
You are expected to address one of the major themes raised in this story, write about the evolution of the protagonist’s character (his strengths and weaknesses, his personality, motives etc), analyze how figurative language contributes to the development of a theme, an issue, or an argument presented in a short story. Alternatively, you can analyze the protagonist’s epiphany, and show how it relates to you as an individual/person/writer, your personal values, beliefs, and convictions. The choice to an approach to a literary analysis is yours.
Make sure that you use literary terms (the protagonist, the plot, the antagonist, the conflict, the climax, the epiphany, a dynamic/static character, a point of view, the setting, the tone, etc.) throughout your literary analysis essay.
