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Choose a short story, novella, or novel. What you choose does not have to be from our textbook, but it MUST be fictional. You cannot use a story we have already covered in this class. Additionally, you cannot use short stories from chapters 5 and 6, and you cannot use Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."

Do a formalist analysis on the subject you have chosen (materials covered in Chapters 7-13). .Length: 5 pages minimum. Cannot exceed 10 pages. This does not include your works cited page.

Format: MLA (appearance and citation). When you use outside sources (theory or criticism) you must document those sources in MLA style (parenthetical citation and a works cited - this is covered in Chapter 3 and course materials).

Use some type of critical theory, for example: biographical, historical, etc. and write your own criticism (discussed in the Appendix and lecture - you will still need to gather outside information for this type of criticism, as none of you are considered academic critics) or literary criticism (discussed in lecture - found in the PGCC Databases) to further analyze and interpret your subject. You are required to use a minimum of three sources (one source should be the subject your paper focuses on, and you should have at least two sources to meet the critical perspective requirement).

Do not use first person (I, my, me, we, us, our - unless you are using reader response criticism) or second person (you, your) when writing the essay.