Literature serves as a mirror to humanity—it uses human individuals as subjects

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Literature serves as a mirror to humanity—it uses human individuals as subjects for discovering: the beautiful in the large and small; the external forces that drive our feelings, actions, and behaviors; and the universal experiences that stand the test of time. Analyzing a work of literature demonstrates not only your understanding of the author’s message, but also intellectual growth as a human being.
For this essay, form a thesis regarding this question: Is Joyce Carol Oates’s Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? a modernized version of Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood? Why or why not?
Construct a strong argument on how this short story uses classic fairy tale plot elements, then support your thesis with theories and criticisms from secondary resources, and use quotations, summaries, and concepts from the primary texts as evidence.
Key Features:
· Establish an academic conversation and gracefully transition your voice into it. Introduce what critics have said about Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? and then state your contribution.
· Guide the reader using a specific perspective. In other words, how do you want your reader to interpret the text? Through a feminist lens? Through an adolescence perspective? Is the text a commentary on social decadence or an allegory about the transition from childhood to womanhood? Take a stance on how you think this text should be read and expand your argument through critical analysis.
Questions to generate ideas:
· What is the purpose of Oates’s short story? (i.e. is it a cautionary tale?) What lessons or values did you learn from her story? What human experience is Oates and Perrault trying to capture in their stories?
· What did you learn from these stories? Write down specific topics such as, adolescent identity, predator/stranger danger, sexual desires, music and lyrics, etc. Then try to find evidence from the text that relate to said topics. This will help arrange your thoughts and record which passages you may want to use.
· Compare the similarities and differences between the characters from both stories. Which character do you find most intriguing? Using your knowledge from Exercise 3.1 above, think about how Connie’s description relates to Little Red’s. Is there a pattern you noticed about this character? Then analyze how characters change (or did not change) throughout the narrative? Is there character development? Why or why not?
· Consider using one of our lessons we used in class to help you generate topics. Black-out poetry can help you focus on word choice and language, which then can lead you to investigate the meanings of a specific word. Or write a letter to a friend and try to describe and summarize Oates and Perrault’s stories. This exercise can help you express all your thoughts onto paper. Remember that your friend may not be familiar with the concepts we discussed in class, so you may have to clarify it to him/her.
· What is the literal meaning of the text? And the symbolical? Remember the literal meaning is the text itself—what the text has explicitly described. The symbolic meaning is the hidden message in the text, reading in-between the lines.
Formatting: 4-5 pages not including Works Cited page. Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, 1” margins (MLA). Two secondary resources must be included and cited in proper MLA format.

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