“Hills like White Elephants” Literary Analysis Hogwood

 What is a literary Analysis? You are probably familiar with rhetorical analyses, where you break down an image or text into its various components – audience, purpose, tone, use of ethos, pathos, logos etc. With a literary analysis, we break a piece of literature down to its literary components – things like character, symbolism, plot, dialogue, setting, imagery, and tone/mood. We then use those elements to better understand what the literature is telling us about a specific theme. To do: Read all the short stories listed below (I provide links to these stories in a folder on Moodle). Pick the story that interests you the most as you will need to annotate and reread the story multiple times. Then write a 3-4 page essay, explaining what the literary elements tell us about a theme in your chosen text. Research: You must have at least two but not more than three credible sources plus the literature cited in your paper. At least one source must be scholarly. You will need to find research on your topic (books, journals, academic online sources). Do not stop researching once you have found two or three sources – find the most appropriate sources to answer your research questions. Audience/Format: Your classmates are your audience. You can assume they have read the literature you are writing about; however, you cannot assume they have considered the texts or concepts in the same way you have. Read all of the short stories listed below. You will focus your essay on just one short story unless you have an idea for combining two together, but you must first speak with me about this. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” – Flannery O’Connor (you are only reading the short story, not the entire collection) http://www.boyd.k12.ky.us/userfiles/447/Classes/28660/A%20Good%20Man%20Is%20Hard%20To%20Find.pdf “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” – Joyce Carol Oates https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” Percival Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures” Alexie Sherman’s “This Is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”