Brief Overview:
Write a final essay assignment of a 7-8 page literary analysis. In this case it will be on Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. In a literary analysis that requires secondary sources, you are encouraged to be aware of and to engage with the range and diversity of critical interpretations and contexts which exist in relation to particular texts, authors, and genres. Although the basis of your essay will be your own analysis about the text that you are studying, your ideas will be enhanced if they are informed by an awareness of what others have thought and written about those texts.
Essay Requirements:
Minimum 7-8 page literary analysis of ONE literary text from our class
MLA formatting with in-text citations and a Works Cited page
A thesis statement towards the end of the introduction that cites how one motif of the novel/short story/poem bolsters one theme.
Three peer-reviewed secondary sources that touch upon either theory, literary criticism, or historical/cultural contexts.
Essay Prompt:
In many stories, characters come into conflict with the culture in which they live. Often, a character feels alienated in his/her community or society due to bias against race, gender, class, or ethnic background. How does the author–using rhetoric, symbols, motifs, actions and dialogue–represent a character as alienated from community in the story? And likewise, how does the author represent the character responding to society? What does that character’s alienation say about the surrounding society’s assumptions, morality and values? In what way(s)do literary elements reflect how that society defines race, gender, class and/or ethnicity? How does this create conflict for the character?
If you can please use this or refrence off from this thesis statment: In this essay, I argue how Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic captures High Place as a culture of prejudiced conflict for Noemi to highlight the sexist power structures at play in the Doyle household.
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