If you will decide upon an analytical question that you
wish to answer in your thesis, then you can look for passages that explicate this
question and support your argument. In this way, you eliminate other events of the plot
that are not relative to your discussion and do not simply retell the
story.
For instance, let us say that you read something
like this allusion to Wright's story by Critic Charles Hannon in his essay, "The Man Who
Was Almost a Man: Teaching the Conflicts as a Temporary
Instructor,"
Wright clearly develops the gun as a phallic
symbol which will substitute for his and his father's appropriated "manhood" itself a
metaphor for economic security and
self-sufficiency
you might
decide to discuss the gun as a symbol of manhood in the sense that it generates respect
and substitutes for the subservient employment and despair of economic independence of
Dave and his father as mere farmer workers for Mr. Hawkins. Therefore, once you decide
upon the thesis for your analytical essay, you have the focus that you need to direct
your search in the story for supportive details.
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the links below to further assist you:
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