This paper should interpret Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes.
Focus your paper on a contestable interpretive claim. Position your paper claim at the
end of your introductory paragraph. Defend your paper claim through your paper’s
argument. Assume you are writing to an audience of people who have read the novel and
care about interpreting it. (Please avoid plot summary)
Submit via CANVAS. Due date on Canvas.
(You are encouraged to make plans to submit the paper well before the last day of the
semester.)
Length: 3-4 pages
Format: 1 inch margins, 12 point font, page numbers, double-spaced
Please note that some of the requirements of this paper have been discussed in the lectures;
they are not detailed here.
Pre-writing Process:
1. Identify a passage from the novel Thousand Cranes by Kawabata (10 lines or less, usually
3-4 lines)
2. Ask an interpretive question about that passage (a HOW or WHY question)
3. Use that interpretive question to develop a Contestable Interpretive Claim.
