Birds of a Feather: A Dialogue Between Artists The Short Story Dr. J. Nicosia

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Birds of a Feather: A Dialogue Between Artists
The Short Story
Dr. J. Nicosia
This 5- to 7-page (1500-2000-word) written project requires you tackling a “match” of any two American writers from our course syllabus, providing you haven’t already compared them in a previous essay.
Most literature scholars acknowledge that writers develop in response to, or in dialogue with, other writers, even if the writer than came before them has long since died.
Your job in this essay option is to write a comparison paper of TWO matched artists’ themes (OR styles). You must choose one artist from the earlier section of the course, and use that artist as the foundation for the second artist you choose from the second half of the course.
Your job is to examine ONE SPECIFIC SIMILARITY, as you see it, and examine that issue in-depth with abundant analysis of both texts. Your goal is to reflect upon how the second writer may have been influenced by the first. This is NOT a biographical approach, mind you, but a literary analysis. By the time you’re finished, your reader might be saying for themselves, “Wow, I never realized just how similar those two stories were!” (if your focus is entirely on comparing, that is).
Your thesis should clearly and precisely identify what specific way you see the first writer influencing the second. This issue could be a religious one, a stylistic one, a thematic one, or a philosophical one. So long as you are focused on ONE issue, you will be able to teach your reader that one writer has developed a particular trait, conception or attitude that he/she shared with another writer.
Be sure to cite/quote sufficiently from the primary texts for conclusive, convincing evidence. Be sure to provide parenthetical citations and a Works Cited (using MLA formatting).
IF you need more specific direction, here are some themes you might use as your controlling thread that connects each text:
How do the texts connect or relate in regard to:
Compare any two texts from our reading list that exhibit a similar lesson that both protagonists learn despite having different experiences.
Contrast two protagonists who seem to learn the opposite lesson from a similar experience.
Describe how narrative point of view works similarly or differently in two different texts.
Explain how two protagonists practice perseverance, determination, or bravery.
Describe how two protagonists learn to change through the course of their experiences in their stories.
Explore how families, societies, religions, or governments, work to inhibit the protagonists’ growth and development in two different texts.
Explore how two different texts are still relevant to today’s life and times
Discuss how the authors use clashes of opposites (good/evil, happy/sad, strong/weak, modern/ancient, new/old, tradition/change, and so on) teach a lesson to the reader.
Issues of class and socioeconomic intolerance are evident in some of the texts we’ve read. Discuss how race, culture, and/or socioeconomics play important similar or disparate roles in two texts.
Keep in mind, you must really get to know the stories intimately before even undertaking the writing process. Successful essays usually exhibit that fact; less successful essays reveal a writer who started thinking and writing a day or two before the due date. Please realize college-level essays require an awful lot of metacognitive thinking over days and weeks, not hours. There are many students who will spend their entire semester thinking about the ideas presented by writers, professors, and their fellow students before even beginning to undertake a written project. Whether you have the time, desire, or ability to do this or not, those students will vault ahead in the race for wisdom, scholarships, letters of recommendation, and jobs. You can do it, too, and I encourage you to put this kind of effort into your chosen endeavors. It will pay off. And if it doesn’t pay off immediately, work that much harder next time!
After you feel you understand the ideas/heart/mind/soul of the writers you’ve chosen, write a first draft discussing the similar or different ideas/hearts/minds/souls of the two works. Stay focused on the one similarity you see in their works and express that in depth before you begin to approach where they digress from each other (if they do).
*The optional approach, if you are very confident in your knowledge of the stories you’ve chosen and want to take a creative approach:
Two writers from our course reading list meet in a bar (yes, let’s assume they’re both alive: OR they could meet at a bar in heaven, if you’d like). Write an extended dialogue between the two authors wherein they discuss the similarities and/or differences between their works. In either case, these writers will still discuss their works in depth, still provide a thesis at the outset, and still use MLA parenthetical style.
AUDIENCE:
Assume your audience is a university student who has just registered for this course. Your work, therefore, should be a great introduction for the student (without being biographical). Assume your reader has heard of the literature and its common terminologies. But when your reader reads your paper, they will be the strongest student in the class when it comes time to discuss your writer in The Short Story course.
FOCUS:
Your goal in any short essay (5-7 pages is short) is to teach your reader one specific and insightful thing about a work, not provide a general introduction. To that end, analyze one text from your writer only for the theme/issue that interests you. It’s OK if you don’t “cover” every issue a writer does. Focus is your goal; someone else can write an essay on the other issues.
STYLE:
Use correct MLA format and citation techniques in your essay and your Works Cited list. For information on using MLA format to cite and document correctly, use the Modern Language Association Handbook, or see The Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
DO NOT consult any SECONDARY sources. I’d prefer you engage deeply with the primary texts, so as to provide your insight into the writer, not another critic’s insight.
Sources to select from:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/migrations/text11/walkerroselily.pdf
https://lukecart.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/the_lesson.pdf
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/Short_Story_By_Flannery_OConnor.pdf
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LadyWith.shtml

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