Los Angelese Pierce College Miss Temptation Story Discussion You will have some leeway in the specific topic you wish to focus on for your research paper,
Los Angelese Pierce College Miss Temptation Story Discussion You will have some leeway in the specific topic you wish to focus on for your research paper, but you must choose from one of four broader topic categories to explore: 1-Food, 2-Education, 3-Technology, and 4-Race/class/identity. By choosing your broad category early in the term, you will have an opportunity to develop some observations, ideas, and questions to guide you in your research process.
For this essay, you will explore the deeper meaning behind a short story. What does the short story tell us about the world, about life, about people, about society — or about anything else? In short, what does the story mean? For example, someone might make the following claim: “The short story ‘A&P’, by John Updike, illustrates the foolishness of making a life-changing decision based on a momentary feeling.”
As an alternative, you may choose to focus on one specific aspect of a story, such as character or setting, and explain its meaning. For example: “The character Arnold Friend from Joyce Carol Oates’ story “where Are You Going, Where Have You Been; represents the type of evil that tends to arise as a result of vanity.”
Once you have formulated some theory about the meaning of the story for some part within the story, construct your essay using specific language from the story as evidence to support your view. As always, include an introduction and a conclusion, along with a well-developed body that adequately supports your viewpoints. The viewpoint or claim you are making about the short story will be your thesis statement.
You may choose from the following stories:
FOOD:
The Decline and Fall, by P. J. Devlin
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/declin…
EDCUCATION:
Calculus 1, by John M. Floyd
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/03/calcul…
TECHNOLOGY:
Everything in Time Travel Has Been Done, by Doug Lane
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/04/everyt…
The Happiness Machine, by RayBradburry
ray-bradbury-the-happiness-machine-SEP.pdf
RACE, CLASS, AND IDENTITY:
Miss Temptation, by Kurt Vonnegut
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/10/24/post…
Ride Along, by Brendan DuBois
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/04/ride-a…
Your essay should be roughly 750 words in length. Submit a PDF version here on Convas, and be sure to check back after the due date for peer review assignments.
PLEASE NOTE: All submissions will be checked for plagiarism using an online plagiarism detection tool. Do not plagiarize–I am more interested in what you think about the story than what some random person on the internet thinks.
