Litarary Essay

1) Minimum, 6 full pages (1500+ words). Get to page 7! 2) Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 1” margins 3) Works cited page in MLA format 4) In-text citations in MLA format 5) If the above isn't followed, paper gets ½ points Note: Remember, there are examples of how to properly cite quotations posted on Blackboard under “Writing Aids.” Goal of Assignment: To write a Literary Analysis Paper. Assignment: Using Farewell My Lovely as the primary source, write a response to one of the following topics. Topic #3 In Farewell My Lovely, Philip Marlowe spends a good amount of time walking around Central Ave., an area that experienced a significant amount of integration in the years before World War 2. Chandler had a difficult task: to represent a largely African American community that had rarely been represented before from a “realistic” perspective–25 years before the Civil Rights movement. Therefore, he had to represent bigots as they were: bigots. But he also had to differentiate these bigots from people who were relatively open-minded for the time, including the character Marlowe himself. Yet sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between bigoted language and behaviors from respectful language and behaviors, because the entire era was segregated. For instance, Marlowe's referring to African Americans as “Negroes” and/or “colored” was respectful in 1940, but today would sound ignorant or uninformed. This ignorance can be seen with relationships with other characters in the book, including “Indians” and people from Chinese and Japanese descent, among others as well.* Using a good number of specific examples throughout the text, and including academically acceptable sources to better understand the historical background, discuss Marlowe's relationships with characters with these backgrounds, and explain to the reader to what extent you feel like he is “respectful” to these communities as compared with “bigoted” or “ignorant?”* Organizing Suggestions: 1) Your essay should have an introductory paragraph that includes a thesis statement. 2) Your essay should have a brief summary of who the main character is, what he initially sets out to do, and a bit of info about who/what seems to get in his way. This may be part of the introductory paragraph or a paragraph of its own, but it should be early in the essay 3) Are you doing something that might require a definition for the reader? For instance, are you writing on “gothic,” and the reader may need to know what you think that means? Go ahead and add a paragraph on that early on, so the reader understands what you mean by the terms. 4) Your essay should have a concluding paragraph. Possible organization of body paragraphs: 1) Topic sentence (What are you going to discuss in this particular paragraph?) 2) Help the reader understand what is going on at the time of the quote (Where is this scene taking place? Who is there? What is going on?) 3) Cite quote 4) Explain Quote! How/Why does it show your thesis is correct?