- ‘Good Country People’ by Flannery O’Connor
or
-‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ by Flannery O’Connor
So pick one of the two and follow the instructions below. Please get this to me asap.
Carefully consider(or analyze)a past experience –a weird dream, a significant event, a thought-provoking book, an amazing concert, or anything in between. We think about why the experience felt so important, unique, or jarring. Why it shook us to the core or lifted our spirits. Because our experiences play such a large role in shaping who we are, a careful reflection of those experiences helps us better understand ourselves and our roles within the larger contexts of our lives. Reading reflections, therefore, are meant to help you better understand the significance of a piece of writing –a significance that’s up to you to identify. Even though you’re all going to read the same stories, it’s quite possible that each of you will take something different from each piece of writing. The process of reflection will help you articulate how you came to your unique conclusion(s) and defined the significance of that particular text. For that reason (and because the assignments are so brief), your reflections should be tight, focused pieces of writing through which you examine a particular aspect of a single text. Unlike your discussion board posts, the goal of this assignment is not to write about every poem or story for that particular week, nor is it to spend a full page summarizing poem or story. Instead, you should choose ONE story from each week and identify a key concept, theme,
symbol, metaphor, image, or anything else that is essential to your reading of the text. Spend the entirety of your reflection analyzing the significance of that thing within your chosen poem or story, then wrap it all up by questioning the author’s intentions. Reflections also serve some basic, practical purposes that will improve the rest of your work in this class, including•weekly opportunities to sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills;•establishment of ideas for more complex assignments;•and content retention for major assignments. In a nutshell, each week you’ll identify a key aspect of a single story, then write a brief, but thoughtful, an analysis that focuses exclusively on whatever idea you’ve chosen. And remember: the purpose of this assignment is not to summarize your chosen text. *As with any assignment, your reflections should adhere to standard MLA format.
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