Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat"
Title from readings: Choose one to answer questions below.Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums”Isabelle Allende’s “And of Clay We Are Created”Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”Week 3 Assignment Grading RubricParametersMaximum PointsProvides 500 words or more10Includes specific assignment parameters10Demonstrates correct APA citation and formatting5Submitted on timePoints Earned5For this week’s assignment, you may choose from among the required readings for the week toanalyze.In a full 2-page essay (500 word minimum), respond to one of the following questions inconnection to the story you’ve chosen to analyze. Remember to use textual evidence to back upyour claims, and to provide proper APA documentation and References citations for your work.Questions to choose from (as presented by Lois Tyson in Critical Theory Today: A User-FriendlyGuide):1. How do the operations of repression inform the work? What unconscious motives areoperating in the main character(s)? What core issues are thereby illustrated? How do these coreissues structure or inform the piece? (Remember, the unconscious consists of repressedwounds, fears, unresolved conflicts, and guilty desires.)2. Are there any family dynamics, including oedipal or electra dynamics, at work in the piece? Isit possible to relate a character’s patterns of adult behavior to early experiences in the family asrepresented in the story? How do these patterns of behavior and family dynamics operate andwhat do they reveal?From Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Garland, 1999. 32.Use textual evidence when needed to back up your claims. Remember to use proper APA intext citation if you use words or phrases from the readings, and to include a References citationfor each source you use. The Wk 2 Online Presentation on “Summary, Paraphrase, and DirectQuotations” will help you with the steps to proper APA style. You can also consult the APAResource Center listed in the “Classroom” link in our course menu for helpful documents andresources concerning APA documentation.This assignment will be checked for plagiarism using our in-course plagiarism detectionsoftware. You can read more about the consequences for plagiarism, a form of academicdishonesty, in the Herzing University Academic Dishonesty Policy (in our course syllabus and inthe university catalog).
