Picture Bride

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Write a 500-750 word essay on one of the following topics.

• Give historical perspective to one of the works covered in weeks 3 or 4. Develop a thesis that reflects how the work is a reflection of the time period in which it is written.

• Write a critical analysis of one of the works from weeks 3 or 4. An overview of approaches can be found here, but many are quite straightforward. Psychological, gender, sociological, biographical, and historical are all approaches that many use naturally in viewing a work. However, if your interest lies elsewhere, feel free to choose another approach. Please include your choice of approach in the assignment submission text box.

• Compare and contrast two poems by the same author. You can choose any of their other works for this comparison. Certainly feel free to explore works we haven’t covered. Be sure that you have isolated a strong and debatable thesis on which to build the essay. Simply pointing out the differences is not analysis. Toward that end, you may want to focus on a specific element of the stories.

• If there’s an aspect of the stories from these two weeks that particularly interests you, you may choose your own topic, but you must run it by me first to be sure it is headed in an analytical direction.

Your essay should be formatted in MLA style, including double spacing throughout. All sources should be properly cited both in the text and on a works cited page. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

You should use the online APUS library to look for scholarly sources. Be careful that you don’t create a “cut and paste” paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.

Whatever topic you choose you will need a debatable thesis. A thesis is not a fact, a quote, or a question. It is your position on the topic. The reader already knows the story; you are to offer him a new perspective based on your observations.

Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary. Rather than tell him what happened, tell him what specific portions of the story support your thesis. The handout on “Literary Analysis” is a must for this aspect of the paper.

THE WORK I WILL LIKE TO WRITE ON IS:

CATHY SONG

Picture Bride

She was a year younger

than I,

twenty-three when she left Korea.

Did she simply close

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the door of her father’s house

and walk away. And

was it a long way

through the tailor shops of Pusan

to the wharf where the boat

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waited to take her to an island

whose name she had

only recently learned,

on whose shore

a man waited,

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turning her photograph

to the light when the lanterns

in the camp outside

Waialua Sugar Mill were lit

and the inside of his room

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grew luminous

from the wings of moths

migrating out of the cane stalks?

What things did my grandmother

take with her? And when

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she arrived to look

into the face of the stranger

who was her husband,

thirteen years older than she,

did she politely untie

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the silk bow of her jacket,

her tent-shaped dress

filling with the dry wind

that blew from the surrounding fields

where the men were burning the cane?

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