DISCUSSION #1

In your main post, begin by writing the sentences below and filling in the blanks:

The text(s) that we have read in this class that I will use for my paper is/are:

• • “Lust” by Susan Minot

• I will use the __FEMINIST _critical reading strategy to help me analyze the text.
• The claim I want to make about that work(s) is: _____________.

3. THEN, combine all of that information INTO A SINGLE SENTENCE, which will also be posted in your main post. This will be the working thesis for your Research Paper. It may look something like this:

TEXT BELOW ARE EXAMPLE THESIS STATEMENTS ONLY !!

Using the psychological strategy to analyze “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway demonstrates that his purpose in writing the text was to help other soldiers learn to cope with the effects of their time spent at war.

Here’s another example where the strategy is not directly mentioned in the thesis–this is the more refined and advanced option:

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character of Jay Gatsby to show that obsession with material wealth and social elevation can ultimately lead to personal destruction.

So, for this Gatsby thesis, the writer might use a Marxist lens to assist in analysis, since the focus is on money/class.

Note: for the incorporation of the critical reading strategy, try to think of it in terms of how you are using it, not how the author is using it (since most don’t, at least not on purpose).

***You may not use the sample Hemingway thesis/argument above for your paper. Meaning, do not submit a version of that argument/thesis.

Come up with your own unique argument for analysis!

LINK FOR SHORT STORY LUST IS BELOW

https://ivypanda.com/essays/lust-analysis/

DISCUSSION #2

Read Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, as an introduction to Drama. Then, read the selection from the short story version of the play “A Jury of Her Peers” (pages 982-984). You may want to consider the following:

• Aside from the obvious differences in presentation, how are the two versions of the story different?

• Do you prefer one over the other? If so, which version of the story do you prefer and why?

• Do you think this story would benefit from a larger perspective (told over the span of days or weeks, with more backstory on the characters’ lives, and a resolution of the murder case)? Why or why not?

Must incorporate at least 1 mla in-text citation quote!!!!

MLA CITATIONS…150 word minimum for discussion #2