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| What to do: 1. Make a connection between two texts – put “this and that together” – and explain both the details and the significance of that connection 2. Locate yourself in a conversation (from section, from lecture, from your reading, from life) 3. Agree with a writer and extend his or her ideas with your own examples 4. Ask a question, then answer it 5. Reconstruct a “light bulb moment” ARTICULATE YOUR ARGUMENT IN A SENTENCE OR TWO: In Hemingway’s short story, “The Revolutionist,” there are two people who are very different. WHAT CAN BE MADE MORE SPECIFIC? two people – WHO? very different – HOW? Young boy (even more specific – from text) Older narrator (even more specific – from text)Youthful, optimistic, exuberance (details) More mature, tempered, realism (details) WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? (in life? in the book?) Shows the wisdom that comes with age? The tendency of youth to believe religiously in political utopias? Marks a mid-point in the characters’ lives in the book, from Nick Adams’s life as the naive boy in “Indian Camp” to the shell-shocked, ex-soldier in “Big Two-Hearted River”? NOW YOU’RE READY TO WRITE A SOLID ARGUMENT— In Hemingway’s short story, “The Revolutionist,” Hemingway pits an enthusiastic, young revolutionary against an older, more realistic member of the Communist Party in order to show how the young believe in politics like a religion. LOOK AT THE PARTS OF YOUR ARGUMENT AND LET IT STRUCTURE YOUR ESSAY – Hemingway pits an enthusiastic, young revolutionary against an older, more realistic member of the Communist Party in order to show how the young believe in politics like a religion. |
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