Write an essay interpreting some aspects of a story. Try to convince your readers that your perspective on the story is appealing and reveals a new aspect of the story. The primary readers of your essay are those who read the story and write about it, possibly your instructor and classmates. Back up your interpretation with reasons and support them with details from the story. You are not going to use any secondary sources to back up your interpretation.
Guidelines:
Interpreting a story requires your understanding of the story; you need to analyze its various aspects, present your interpretation of the story from your viewpoint, and then help your readers to see some aspect of the story. It is important that you should assert your own idea about the meaning of the story and that you argue for your interpretation of the story based on that idea. Without your own assertion, your essay may turn into retelling the story, which I do not ask you to do. Make your assertion plausible this means you should argue logically-- contribute to building rich discussion about the story, and then support your assertion with convincing details from the story.
This assignment is a typical analytical expository essay in the argument pattern that you have practiced in high school. The essay should be organized topically, so the main idea must be presented in the thesis statement and may be summarized again at the conclusion in different words. Your thesis must be arguable and clearly stated in the introduction. To develop and support the thesis, you need to provide the reasons of your thesis. The thesis statement and its reasons must belogically connected. The primary source of the reasons is the story itself; you should specifically draw supporting details from the story, for example, specific lines or part of dialogue or scenes. If necessary, quote, summarize, and/or paraphrase passages from the story. Your own interpretation is necessary before or after the quotes from the story. Make sure that you avoid simply retelling the story. Do not use other sources or other writers' ideas to support the thesis of the essay, which means you don't need to do research.