lbwhite89
02-13-2011, 10:32 AM
Hello,
I was assigned an essay about a fiction writer. My instructor gave us the freedom to choose the direction we went with the paper, but he said to aim for 4-6 pages of material.
The writers we've read so far are John Updike, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor.
I'm interested in racial issues/slavery/etc, so I originally picked Alice Walker, but I didn't think I could get 4-6 pages out of such a short story like "Everyday Use" (which is the only one we read from her). So, I chose Flannery O'Connor and decided to focus on her interpretation of the Catholic meaning of grace.
However, I still have a whole page to write to meet the length requirement and I'm at a loss. I don't know if my thesis statement is any good, and the whole paper is a big jumbled mess of started, but not finished, paragraphs and sentences. I'm at a standstill.
I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with O'Connor and wouldn't mind looking over my essay and maybe making some suggestions on where I could go with it.
I was assigned an essay about a fiction writer. My instructor gave us the freedom to choose the direction we went with the paper, but he said to aim for 4-6 pages of material.
The writers we've read so far are John Updike, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor.
I'm interested in racial issues/slavery/etc, so I originally picked Alice Walker, but I didn't think I could get 4-6 pages out of such a short story like "Everyday Use" (which is the only one we read from her). So, I chose Flannery O'Connor and decided to focus on her interpretation of the Catholic meaning of grace.
However, I still have a whole page to write to meet the length requirement and I'm at a loss. I don't know if my thesis statement is any good, and the whole paper is a big jumbled mess of started, but not finished, paragraphs and sentences. I'm at a standstill.
I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with O'Connor and wouldn't mind looking over my essay and maybe making some suggestions on where I could go with it.