Paper Assignment #2

Choose from the following texts:

“Sticks” by George Saunders

“Reunion” by John Cheever

“Before the Law” by Franz Kafka

“Taylor Swift” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

“For Women Who Are Difficult To Love” by Warsan Shire

“The Adventure of a Skier” by Italo Calvino

“The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

“The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrol

Choose a theme or message that you feel this text is conveying. Then choose one word from the text that you feel is the most important word. Write a paper that explains how this particular word is the key word to understand in order to comprehend the theme you feel the text is conveying.

How does this one particular word help you to understand more deeply the theme that is emerging from the text?

500 to 750 words, double spaced, in Times New Roman or Garamond font.

Your paper must have an original title and it should not have a lengthy and boring introduction. Also, do not spend much word-count on summarizing.

Your paper should analyze at least one quote from the text you choose. It will most likely be a quote that contains the “key word” you are exploring.

The theme that you discuss should be expressable in a full sentence and not just one word.