Responding to Prose Using Critical Literary Theory (Compare/Contrast)

Create a response to creative nonfiction work and a short story “Story of an hour” utilizing a mode of literary theory, focusing on a work of nonfiction. There is no need to include a summary of the work of creative nonfiction, as your instructor has read the stories; instead focus on writing a comparison/contrast essay.

Focus your essay on elements of the creative nonfiction work that highlight differences between nonfiction and fiction.

Chopin, K. (n.d.). Story of an hour. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/introliterature/…

For each main point that you select, support that point with quotes from the narrative, and then share your analysis of how and why the points and evidence/quotes/examples fit together.

Your writing should use one of the traditions of critical literary theory. (Links to an external site.) Use third-person point of view.

For a successful critical thinking assignment, you must do the following:

• Have a strong thesis statement (Links to an external site.)that you craft after constructing your evidence-based paragraphs (Links to an external site.).
• Use specific textual support from the text in the body of your paper.
• Apply a mode of literary analysis to help you make your assertions from a theoretical position.
• Include quotations with your analysis. This is important so you can work to analyze the author’s words and is an essential part of literary analysis.
• Proofread for errors in spelling, grammar, and writing mechanics. Vary sentence structure and sentence length to add interest.

Writing Requirements

• Should be 2 pages in length (not counting the title page and references page)
• Minimum of two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook (The CSU Global Library is a good place to find these references.)
• Use template paper located in the module folder.
• Follow correct APA guidelines found in CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.) with regard to the following:
  • Font style and size
  • Margins and spacing
  • References page (Include a reference page citation at the end of the paper for the short story in the anthology.)