Paper #3 due date

Paper #3 will be due on 4/28 5/3  (paper readings may extend to part of class on 5/5).

Paper #4 will be optional:  if you want to try to raise your grade.  Any paper handed in as Paper #4 will not lower your grade.  You can turn it in when we meet for the final exam.

General info for topics for next paper

For those who like to get started early:  You will focus on one of our texts, with a brief reference to a second as part of your argument (the reference to the second text can be either support or counter-example); make sure you address the questions below in the context of your essay.  Please note:  none of these questions are your specific thesis.  Your thesis should be something about the child/childhood or the parent/parental in your chosen text.

1.  What is evil in this story--what does it do?
2.  Where, according to the text, does evil come from--what is its point of origin in the story?
3.  How does the story get you to participate in it (the story, the evil, the argument, etc.)?

Some pithy quotations:

 

Evil is unspectacular and always human

And shares our bed and eats at our own table.   

--W.H. AUDEN, Herman Melville

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.
--FANNY KEMBLE, Further Records, Feb. 12, 1875

Evil is a point of view.
--ANNE RICE, Interview with the Vampire




 The rules are the same as for the first paper.