Analyze and interpret an american novel

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Assignment Task: Literary Analysis Submission

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Please review the information provided on the literary analysis and submits the final draft of your literary analysis in this assignment link. You will have two attempts to submit this writing project. Remember to follow MLA guidelines and submit your literary analysis as a double-spaced document in Times New Roman, Arial, or Tahoma fonts.

Literary Analysis

American Novel - Literary Analysis

A literary analysis essay is an academic assignment that examines and evaluates a work of literature or a given aspect of a specific literary piece. It makes a point about a literary work, then supports that point by discussing the work's literature elements and implied ideas that are not necessarily apparent within the literature itself.

Objectives:

1. Students will analyze and interpret an American novel.

2. Students will write critically about literature, using textual evidence with proper citation.

3. Students can conduct research for a literary analysis paper and understand how to approach and evaluate literary criticism. Need Assignment Help?

Choose one of the following novels by American novelists. The final course assignment is to write a literary analysis on one of the novels from the list below.

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin-The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, learns to think of herself as an autonomous human being and rebels against social norms
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker-An epic tale spans forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
• Beloved by Toni Morrison-The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. Although Sethe lives there as a free woman, she is held prisoner by memories of the trauma of her life as a slave.
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins-In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains.
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner-The story tells of the Compson family including Quentin, Jason, Benjy and Caddy, and addresses themes related to moral, personal, and social demise and religion, especially in its depiction of the castrated, mentally challenged Benjy.
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger-The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world.
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne-In June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness an official punishment. A young woman, Hester Prynne, has been found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet "A" on her dress as a sign of shame. Furthermore, she must stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation.
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mya Angelou--I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a painful, yet inspiring, autobiography about Angelou's childhood as a black girl in the deep South. Maya is not accustomed to the discrimination of the South, but she soon learns about the deep differences between blacks and whites.
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane-The Red Badge of Courage is the story of Henry Fleming, a teenager who enlists with the Union Army in the hopes of fulfilling his dreams of glory. Shortly after enlisting, the reality of his decision sets in. He experiences tedious waiting, not immediate glory.
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines-Set in the fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the late 1940s, A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of Jefferson, a twenty-one-year-old uneducated black field worker wrongfully accused and convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man, and sentenced to death by electrocution.
• Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris-Setin a black upper-middle class milieu, this unappealing potboiler attempts to detail the lives and loves of an intersecting group of overachievers with a variety of sexual appetites.
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man is the fictional memoir of an unnamed black narrator's journey to self-discovery. The narrator is not invisible because of a physical ailment or a freak accident; he is invisible because society sees him simply as a "black man"-a label filled with racist expectation.
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston-Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of Janie Crawford, whose life is a quest to find true love. Janie narrates the story of her three marriages and her search for love to her friend Phoeby.
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway-The Sun Also Rises tells the story of a group of disillusioned expatriates living in post-World War I Europe, searching for meaning as they travel, drink, and engage in romances during a Spanish fiesta.
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee-To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of the young narrator's passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South.
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald-Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
• My Antonia by Willa Cather-The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton--Ethan lives with his wife Zenobia and her cousin Mattie. Ethan and Mattie once had an emotional affair. Feeling suffocated, they attempted suicide by sledding into a tree, but they survived the accident and now live in misery.