A 800-1000 word essay based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper"

Carefully choose a work/works that address the subject area you choose to write about. Essays should be composed of detailed, example-filled paragraphs. Your essay should contain a thesis (a challenging, arguable topic statement). Make certain that you stay focused on your thesis; keep your essay objective (based only on the actual text), and do not wander to tangential topics. Avoid making biographical speculations about authors unless you are writing about autobiographies or personal histories; avoid speculation over how authors’ lives might have shaped work that is not autobiographical. For example, if you write on Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” do not make general statements about marriages in late nineteenth-century America; instead, pay attention to how the narrative describes a woman’s role in that particular story. Rather than offering vague commentary, you should develop a specific argument with proof from the actual work. Unnecessarily extensive summary will adversely affect the grade your essay earns. Finally, all support for your thesis should be substantiated from the works by using appropriate quotes. Think outside the box to find interesting connections between your thesis and the work. Topic : A Close Reading Using a particular “lens” as your starting point, perform a close reading of a short story, poem, or drama, making sure that your thesis connects the importance of a particular element with a major theme in the text. A close reading involves choosing an element of fiction, poetry, or drama carefully examining the short story through this “lens” for proof of how this element reveals the story’s theme. Elements of fiction: character, plot, setting, point of view, symbolism, theme. Elements of poetry: speaker, situation, structure, sound, style, theme. Elements of drama: dialogue, stage directions, character, plot, setting, symbolism, theme. https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/history/files/lavender/wallpaper.html