Essay #1; Draft due Sunday, March 6th (instructions below). Essay due Wednesday, March 9th11:59 PM. Revision due two weeks after first essay is returned.
ESSAY #1 PROMPT (what you write your essay in response to):
Prompt preparation: Both “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe are stories told in first-person narration. This method of story-telling affords us, as readers, the opportunity to see beyond what the narrators perceive about themselves and their worlds; we see the narrators’ problems and limitations as well as strengths in ways that they do not. We can see realities neither narrator can grasp. We see that both narrators want something beyond what their scope of vision and/or environment allows them to identify or even know exists.
Actual Prompt: Do the narrators in both Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” really know themselves? What don’t they understand about themselves and/or their worlds?
Write an essay in which you argue your answer to the above question. Your objective should be to convince your “blank slate” reader (with claims supported by evidence and analyses) that you understand what the narrators do not understand about both themselves and their worlds.
ESSAY GUIDELINES:
Essays must be submitted only as a Word document, so I can write feedback on them. PDFs or google.docs papers will not be accepted. I cannot write on PDFs and cannot open google.docs
All essays must follow MLA formatting, which means they must:
have one inch margins all around
be paganated MLA style
be double spaced from beginning to end
be 12 point font
Times New Roman typesetting
no boldfacing, underlining or cover pages
give attribution (credit) to the authors MLA style (page number after citation) when quoting.
Feel free to model on the following MLA paper: MLA Sample Paper // Purdue Writing Lab
