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Print the following stories The Life You Save May Be Your Own http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm A Good Man is Hard to Find http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html While reading it, look for archetypes, allusions, and reoccurring images. Look for other striking literary devices as well. Lastly, note elements of style of this amazing southern author. You will get points for your notes ON your print out, so every paragraph should be laced with them.

You will turn in a hard copy (in case technology fails me and keeps me from being able to use my iPad to grade your papers). Drop it in my file on the H drive after you've converted it to a PDF. I would suggest you save your paper on Google Docs or on a flash drive before coming to school. To convert a word document to a PDF, follow the steps below (these instructions are for mac computers): Open the document Click FILE Click PRINT Click SAVE AS PDF (bottom-left corner) RENAME IT AS FOLLOWS: PERIOD Last First NAME TOPIC (For example: 1st Davis Ben Gatsby OR 7th Davis Ben Twilight) Save it to the HDrive dropbox under my name OR you can share it with me via GOOGLE DOCS

Below you will find an example of an intro and a conclusion. These are on two different topics, but I assume that the structure will give you some direction. Intro Archetypes appear in every piece of literature. They equip readers with a filter through which they can pass texts for better understanding. The more experience a one has with stories, the better equipped he/she is to analyze characters in novels. In Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby , the incorporation of fairytale archetypes give the reader a pretext for better understanding why Gatsby's dream must fail. Conclusion Fitzgearald teaches the reader that the American dream a consuming disease. There is never an end to the dream because the dreamer always wants to add to it. Gatsby's dream was not to have Daisy. His original grail was to be wealthy; she was the embodiment of that wealth. He assumed he could win her over with shiny luxuries, but he did not realize that he (the Cinderella figure) was the one cal...

Finish your essay and email it to me by Saturday at 11 p.m. That will get you 4 bonus points on you essay. NOTE: That is almost half of a letter grade. Text your friends to spread the word.

Here are some examples of outlines that need a bath. The RED writing is the original. The one following the red one is mine. Topic: Gatsby as a Christ Figure I.A. Platonic Conception (page 98) B. About my Father's Business (page 98) C. The mattress (page 161) II.A. Hard rock on the wet marshes (page 2) B. Gatsby's book (page 173) III. A. Communion (Page 11) B. Eckleberg (page 160) IV. A. The valley of ashes (page 23) B. No one came to Gatsby's funeral (page 164) CRITIQUE: This outline has no main points. All it has are concrete details. Therefore, we do not know what point is trying to be made. For all we know, this is a dog that has a tail growing out of its head. That would look like a unicorn dog, and those do not exist, as opposed to real unicorns which...well, perhaps the comparison is lost...but the point is that the reader of the outline cannot make heads or tails of what the writer is planning for the essay. So how is the reader going to be able...

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