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For this ENC1102 Essay #2 Planning Worksheet, you already understand that planning is a crucial step in essay writing because it helps organize your thoughts and prevents you from jumping around or repeating yourself.

To begin, you need to develop your thesis statement. A thesis statement for an essay should be one sentence only, and you should be able to back it up with evidence from the literary text and scholarly criticism.

To develop your thesis statement for Essay #2, you will need to first select one of following literary texts we have read:

• Susan Glaspell, Trifles
• Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” James Dickey, “The Leap”
• Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky” (from Through the Looking Glass)

Once you have selected the literary work you wish to write about, you will need to select one of the following elements of literature:

• Speaker/Narrator
• Setting (either place or time)
• One of the characters or the relationship between characters
• A theme of the work
• The tone of the work
• Symbolism within the work
• Irony within the work

Now that you have chosen both the literary work and the element of literature, it is time to consider your opinion. For example, let’s say that you have chosen Trifles and you want to write about the relationship between the three female characters: Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Wright. What do you think about their relationship? Is it just their gender that ties them together? Do they relate to one another, and if so, why? What prompts Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale to feel empathy for Mrs. Wright? Why do they hide the evidence?

You may not have been asked to give your opinion on literature before, but a good collegiate-level thesis statement contains your opinion stated as if it were a fact. For example:

I think that the experience of living life in the early twentieth century as a married woman in rural New England binds Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Wright together in sisterhood.

If we delete “I think” from the above sentence, we have a pretty good thesis statement:

The experience of living life in the early twentieth century as a married woman in rural New England binds Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Wright together in sisterhood.

Here are some possible topics you can consider if you don’t know what to write about:

• Is Montresor a trustworthy narrator in “The Cask of Amontillado?” How Montresor is an effective villain in “The Cask of Amontillado”
• Does Montresor suffer from antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) in “The Cask of Amontillado?”
• Does Fortunato deserve his fate in “The Cask of Amontillado?” How Trifles is a feminist play.
• How the historical women’s suffrage movement in America may have influenced Susan Glaspell and Trifles
• The divide between the sexes in Trifles The irony in Trifles
• Women’s work vs. Men’s work in Trifles
• The theme of expectations vs. reality in “Woman Hollering Creek.” How Cleòfílas conceptualizes love in “Woman Hollering Creek”
• How machismo harms women in “Woman Hollering Creek”
• How Cisneros reclaims the legend of La Llarona and turns it into a feminist symbol in “Woman Hollering Creek.”
• What do the leaps in James Dickey’s “The Leap” represent?
• What is the relationship between the speaker in “The Leap” and Jane? Nonsense verse and “The Jabberwocky”

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