comp 102 essay

Hi Students,

Thanks for all the work you have been handing in! Your essays are good and your tests are good!!! These will come back to you soon.

Hope you are enjoying reading “Trifles” and watching that performance. It is an older but classic play and you might have read it before! Today I would like to ask you to begin working out your 4^th essay and “Trifles” seems an appropriate play to write about and study.

Here is your 4^th essay assignment:

The idea is to study how Susan Glaspell used “trifles” to influence every aspect of the play

Body 1/2 How are the trifles clues received by way of dialogue, the stage setting and characters

Body 3/4 How well does the title trifles integrate with what happens? (both for plot and theme? How is it connected to what happens and how is it connected to the message?)

Body 5 How does the message about difference in men’s and women’s thinking work with the trifles?

Notice, this can be your longest essay yet because there is the possibility of five body paragraphs especially if you are using lines from the play or stage setting to support your points!

Also, having read almost all of your third essays, many of you use existing sources to interpret and write about the literature through many study sites etc. Make sure that you give credit to these sites if you use an idea from there!

For our purposes, we will use the text entry: Glaspell, Susan. “Trifles” In Kennedy, S.J. and D. Gioia. Backpack Literature. Boston, Mass.: Pearson, 2016. For plays, though there might not be pages, there will be dialogue paragraphs and lines are attributed to certain characters and also from stage directions.

Make sure you do an outline first! otherwise your writing will become confused. Every paragraph is making specific points about trifles, whether as clues, as important points for plot and theme and for the interpreted key message.

Good Thinking Literature Learners