English Assignment

Catherine Owens

Proposal for Final Paper Worksheet

Once you have decided on a prompt and text, respond to the directives below using the Proposal for Final Paper Worksheet. Please make sure your document is double spaced.

In your paper:

• Articulate what interests you most about this prompt.

• Identify the specific text(s) you will write about, and explain the connection between the text and the prompt you chose.

• Develop a working thesis that articulates an argument about the literary text(s). (Keep in mind that "working thesis" means you can slightly modify your thesis for the draft and/or final essay.) For more help on how to write a thesis, please see the Ashford Writing Center.

• Identify three key ideas that you will discuss in support of your thesis. Supporting points should reflect a critical reading of the text.

• Describe any questions, concerns, and plans you have at this point for your project.

Topic I choose

Writing Prompt

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Gabriel García Marquez, 1955)

Guiding Questions:

1. How is the supernatural made familiar and the familiar defamiliarized in the story? Is the angel made more human? Are humans made supernatural or less humane?

2. How is the tension between supernatural and human resolved (or not) in the story?

3. What does the community's treatment of this ‘outsider' reveal about its culture, values, and beliefs?