Essay Two Presenting an Argument about Hanif Kureishis My Be

Essay Two Presenting an Argument about Hanif Kureishis My Be Essay Two: Presenting an Argument about Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette or Zadie Smith’s On Beauty As Diana Hacker notes, “All good writing about literature attempts to answer a question, spoken or unspoken, about the text” (646): “Why is ‘Araby’ a story of initiation?” “In what ways does Raymond Carver’s ‘What we talk about when we talk about love’ explore different concepts of love?” A concise and insightful literature paper should answer such questions with a “meaningful interpretation, presented forcefully and persuasively” (646). Purpose and Skills: To analyze a play or novel. Relying on close reading and theme, you will explore structure and patterns and formulate an argument about the text under scrutiny. How do form and content interact to reinforce a theme? To integrate definitions into a paper about literature. To formulate an original, thought-provoking thesis with an argument that goes beyond the obvious. Maybe select a “friction-rich” relationship of patterns and structures to focus on in your thesis. To develop, present, complicate, and advance your argument. To support your thesis with convincing reasons. Imagine you were a lawyer defending your case in court. To provide textual evidence and support for your ideas to substantiate your argument in the thesis. To address and refute a counterargument based on the possible contradictions or gaps in the primary text and/or secondary literature. To demonstrate your understanding of the analysis of a literary text by applying relevant literary terms. To integrate secondary literature in a meaningful way. Knowledge: The assignment will help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline: 1. The elements of a play and a novel. 2. Relevant historical context. 3. Critical Theory ……………………………..CONTINUED………………………….