Literary Analysis Essay

Choose a character from one of the reading selections in your textbook. Analyze, or in other words, examine, all the information the author provides about the character. Through more analysis, determine why your chosen character made certain choices or took certain actions.

 

Reading assignments to choose from are

 

from Beowulf – trans. Burton Raffel

Children – Slawomir Mrozek

The Jar – Luigi Pirandello

Death of a Tsotsi – Alan Paton

Judges Must Balance Justice vs. Young Lives – Patricia Edmonds

Youth Violent Crime Keeps Climbing – J.L. Albert

Action Will Be Taken: An Action-Packed Story – Heinrich Boll

from The Life of Henry the Fifth – William Shakespeare

Speech, May 13, 1940 – Winston Churchill

The Thrill of the Grass – W.P. Kinsella

from Night – Elie Wiesel

This Too Is Everything – Shu Ting

A Marriage Proposal – Anton Chekhov