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For your final assignment, you will pickoneof the following prompts and compose a 5-page short essay (1250 words minimum). As a formal analytical essay, your paper must have aconvincing
thesis statement, propertopic sentencesanddeveloped paragraphs, supportivetextual evidence, andcritical analysisof said evidence.

PROMPT 1: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE LITERARY ELEMENT


Chooseoneof our literary elements covered in the first eight weeks of class. [See complete list at the end of document.]Make an argument about how and why either Ishiguro or DeLillo deploys this literary element, and defend your claim by using the opposite author as a contrasting example.Questions to address: How are these two writers using the element of your choice to shape the form of their novels, and how does this element contribute to the larger themes of each? You will need to provide specific textual evidence (through direct quotationsandcritical analysis of those quotations) fromboth
A Pale View of HillsandThe Body Artist. How are the elements being used similarly, and more importantly, how are they being put to different ends? How does this element help support your reading of these two novels?






PROMPT 2: IRONY AND IMAGERY INA PALE VIEW OF HILLS


Verbal irony, as we learned, often describes the discrepancy between what a character says and what they actually believe to be true. Imagery contributes significantly to understanding characters and setting, particularly when told from a first-person perspective.Write an argument about how verbal irony and imagery function withinA Pale View of Hillsto reveal somethingindirectlyabout Etsuko, as well as the larger significance of how the past haunts her present.Be sure you have a central claim at the end of your introduction that explicitly addresses these points. Irony becomes especially important and interesting in Ishiguro’s narrative because of how the reader is given access to what Etsuko saysto herself, subtly gesturing toward how she’s perhaps telling herself small lies to cope with the past. In terms of imagery, you may choose whatever you’d like, but some key images to consider include rope and/or the wasteground.






PROMPT 3: THE FORM OF CONTENT: GHOST STORIES AND WILLFUL FORGETTING


There’s an argument to be made that, to a certain extent,A Pale View of HillsandThe Body Artisttell the same tale. What differs between them, from this perspective, isn’t their content but their form --howeach novelist has writtenwhatthey’ve written. Both novels use the conventions of the ghost story in unusual and innovative ways to explore much larger themes. These include the role of fiction in how individuals and even entire societies “remember” the darker moments of history, and how both individuals and entire societies “willfully forget” their most traumatic moments of grief. And yet, at the same time, some also reclaim this trauma by “performing” it in an indirect way. We could say, for example, that these two novels aren’t “really” ghost stories at all, but instead using the medium of the ghost story to allow us to approach something deeply upsetting in the past that couldn’t be endured otherwise, or vocalized in a direct manner.Write a comparative analysis of how Ishiguro and DeLillo use the form of the ghost story to address much bigger themes, such as grief, willful forgetting, or a theme of your choice.You will need to provide specific textual evidence (through direct quotationsandcritical analysis of those quotations) fromboth
A Pale View of HillsandThe Body Artist.



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Intro on the novel
The novel,A Pale View of Hills is the first novel written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel is a story about a Japanese woman named Etsuko, who lives in England. While Etsuko
's daughter Niki visits her mother, the former talks about her life as a woman in Japan, her journey as she left the country to settle in England. She and her husband named Jiro, he was neither attractive or caring but the two of them did share a couple of blissful moments. However, their marriage was not blissful. They even had a girl child and after a couple of years she moved to England with a British man. She took Keiko, her elder daughter when she moved. In England, she had another daughter with her new husband who was named Niki. Etsuko's elder daughter Keiko became increasingly antisocial and solitary in England. When she grew older, Keiko would lock herself inside her room and would come out only to collect dinner that Etsuko would leave in the kitchen for her. She eventually rents out a flat in Manchester. Such behaviour ends with Keiko taking her own life. Even though Etsuko's new husband was hopeful that Keiko would be able to lead a new happy life in England, Etsuko says, she knew all along that her elder daughter would not have been happy in the new country. The vision of Keiko hanging from the ceiling of that rented flat often haunts Etsuko.
While sitting in the café, Niki and Etsuko, the latter spots a girl who takes her back to her memories. Etsuko recalls that back in Japan, she had a friend named Sachiko who fell in love with an American man and ended up wanting to away her child to America. Etsuko then realises who cruel and thoughtless it was to the same to her daughter Keiko.
Gradually, Niki leaves her mother along and goes back to London.
Verbal irony
Irony is a literary element which includes a contradiction between reality and appearance. When used in literature, it is a gap created deliberately between what is being discussed and the language that is being used. I will also results when there is a discrepancy between a character and the reader on narrator in relation to a point of view....
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