Critical Interpretation of Night
Assignment: Write a short essay that interprets the novel Night by Elie Wiesel using two of the critical approaches to literature.
1. Read and respond to the novel in a reading response journal.
2. Choose one of the approaches: historical, sociological, psychological, biographical, formalistic, philosophical or symbolic.
3. Choose four selections from Night to support each critical approach. These selections may be directly quoted or paraphrased in summary. If you use a quote, give the page number in parentheses.
4. At least one fact, opinion or other memoir that supports your analysis from an outside source.
5. Cite the outside source according to MLA requirements.
6. Two page essay minimum—double-spaced.
Assignment: Write a short essay that interprets the novel Night by Elie Wiesel using two of the critical approaches to literature.
1. Read and respond to the novel in a reading response journal.
2. Choose one of the approaches: historical, sociological, psychological, biographical, formalistic, philosophical or symbolic.
3. Choose four selections from Night to support each critical approach. These selections may be directly quoted or paraphrased in summary. If you use a quote, give the page number in parentheses.
4. At least one fact, opinion or other memoir that supports your analysis from an outside source.
5. Cite the outside source according to MLA requirements.
6. Two page essay minimum—double-spaced.
War LiteraturePoetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen
Selections from All Quiet on the Western Front and other novels. |
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