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Two “New” Sentences from the Short Story
Whenever you reread a story, something new normally jumps out, and you wonder how you missed it on your first couple readings of the story. Reread
the short story
that you’re writing your research paper on, find in this story two “new” sentences. They are “new” because you now see for the first time something in them that you hadn’t recognized before, and they now could be worked into your argument for your final version of your research paper. Write the sentences, using the MLA’s in-text citation method, putting the sentences in quotation marks and ending by putting the page number in parentheses, with the period appearing only
after the closed parenthesis.
Sample sentence from Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”: “
Shoogily
. A funny word, a family word inherited from Emily, invented by her to say: comfort
” (354).
Give the short story’s author and title
: Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Quote the first sentence
: I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon.
Now, in a sentence or two, provide analysis of this sentence, and explain why you see it as supporting your thesis.
Mama prepped and cleaned for the arrival of Dee, so the appearance of her eldest daughter is regarded as important. With this sentence I see the nervous mother and can feel the emotions of waiting for Dee.
Quote the second sentence
: She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice.
In a sentence or two, provide analysis of this sentence, and explain why you see it as supporting your thesis.
Dee is misunderstood. Her want to educate and awaken her family and peers is misguided as a smarty
pants.
03-28-2022
Two “New” Sentences from the Literary Critic’s Essay
When you reread a literary critic’s essay
, find in this essay
two “new” sentences. They are “new” because you now see for the first time something that you can begin to argue with. One of the sentences might be the “They say….” of your thesis statement. Explain how it provokes you. What in it makes you want to say, “I say….”? Give the literary critic’s name and the essay’s title
: Fight vs. Flight: A Re-evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" by Susan Farrell
Quote the first sentence
: Most readers of Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use," published in her 1973 collection, In Love and Trouble, agree that the point of the story is to show, as Nancy Tuten argues, a mother's "awakening to one daughter's superficiality and to the other's deep- seated understanding of heritage" (Tuten 125).
In a sentence or two, provide analysis of this sentence, and explain why you want to challenge it or agree with it.
This sentence is the foundation of my paper’s argument. My thesis supports the notion that Dee’s character is misread and instead of attempting to snub her family with her smarts, she is heroic in attempting to preserves here family history.
Second sentence
: Mama, in fact, displaces what seem to be her own fears onto Maggie when she speculates that Maggie
will be cowed by Dee's arrival.
In a sentence or two, provide analysis of this sentence, and explain why you want to challenge it or agree with it.
This assists with my argument, as the mother in the story narrates and leads the story and also the reader. By narrating, mama limits the perspective of Dee to what she wants to see and not so much as helpful but as a deterrent. 03-28-2022
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