Analysis Essay Instructions

Both Persepolis and The Good Times are Killing Me  have generated lots of interesting discussion in class.  Now is your opportunity to go deeper and explore one idea in one of those works.

Write an essay of about 5 pages (no more than 7 pages) (font size 12, double spaced) in which you say something interesting about one of those works.  Use your experience from the short “reading accountability” essays you have done, and think about what we have discussed in individual conferences.  I am looking for you to use analysis of text (and images, perhaps) to walk me though a particular way of reading the work you choose.  I expect that you will have an  introduction that introduces the work under examination (summary) and your particular insight about it (your thesis). I am expecting that the focus of your discussion will be close textual analysis (remember the “quote sandwich.”)

Due: (see Weekly Schedule)

Rubric: Essay Rubric