Literary Research

Choose one of your existing papers (i.e your literary analysis or your literary
argument) to expand into your research paper. You will use either your literary analysis or your literary
argument in its entirety and you will add quotes, from sources you will gather through research, into each of
your body paragraphs.
Purpose
The purpose for this assignment is to give you experience with researching a specific topic and to further hone
the skills you’ve learned about responding to the writing or others and using examples from a text to support
your claims. This assignment will help you build on the analysis or the argument that you’ve already written by
searching for what others have written in an effort to provide additional support for your own ideas. This
assignment allows you to actually become a part of the conversation about your chosen work by incorporating
your thoughts and ideas along side the thoughts and ideas of others.
Skills
Expand on the original analysis or argument you presented in your previous assignment
Learn research skills that will help you to narrow your search
Analyze resources to help you decide which sources will best help you support your claim
Thoroughly and clearly support the analysis or argument you’ve presented in your thesis through the use of
secondary materials
Incorporate the thoughts and ideas of others alongside your own thoughts and ideas in an effort to support
your analysis or argument
Correctly cite multiple sources both in your paper and on your works cited page
Tasks
instructions:
use your existing literary analysis to expand into your research paper.
Each student must submit a rough draft of your literary research paper. This rough draft must consist of your
introduction and first two body paragraphs. Additionally, each body paragraph must contain a quote from the
story, poem or play as well as a quote from a secondary source. (Please refer to the Course Assignment
Schedule for the specific due date for your rough draft.) You will receive feedback from me for this draft.
Criteria for Success
When your assignment is completed, your paper will:
clearly identify, via your introduction and thesis statement, the focus of your analysis or argument
reveal to your reader, via your topic sentences, where your observations occur in your chosen work
provide direct quotes in each body paragraph from the story, poem or play that illustrate to your reader
supporting evidence for your analysis or argument
provide a secondary quote in each body paragraph, from a source you found through your research, that
further illustrates to your reader supporting evidence for your analysis or argument
correctly cite your sources in your paper through the use of parenthetical citations following MLA formatting
correctly cite your source on your works cites page following MLA formatting
meet the minimum page and source requirement for the assignment
Successful completion of this assignment will prepare you present a clear and concise analysis or argument on
any subject; in addition, you’ll gain knowledge of how to do research on any subject area that can be of use to
you well beyond the classroom. This assignment will prepare you to locate facts and others’ opinions that may
be of use when writing reports, proposals and presentations as a means of providing evidentiary support that is
oftentimes required in the professional world.
Paper Format: MLA (Reference The Little Seagull Handbook or the Purdue OWL (Links to an external site.) for
the correct way to format your paper)
Sources: In addition to your primary text, you must also have a MINIMUM of five (5) secondary sources in any
combination from the source types listed below:
Books
Scholarly journals (from the library databases)
Restrictions 
Sources that you use beyond the number required may be of your choosing; however, the following source
types MAY NOT be used: Wikipedia, blogs, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries or websites such as, sparknotes,
enotes, cliffsnotes, schmoop, bookrags, wikisummaries, jiffynotes or similar website/sources are not allowed in
this assignment. In addition, charts, graphs and pictures may not be included in this paper.
You are only allowed to have two blocked quotes* for this assignment
*If you are unfamiliar with blocked quotes, please refer to either The Little Seagull Handbook or the Purdue
OWL for an explanation.
Thew original essay I wrote is : ” The Cask of Amontillado”
Nadaly Etienne
Dr. Speller
ENC1102
July 4, 2020
Every character emits a different personality to teach us a lesson, inform us, and even to bring us pleasure. In
“The Cask of Amontillado,” we are presented with an interaction between the main character, Montresor, and
his friend Fortunato. In this story the main character uses Fortunato ‘s knowledge and love for wine as a way of
luring him to his own death. Montresor’s actions pronounce his personality. Montresor’s actions reflect his
manipulative and vengeful personality that is coated by intelligence and fake friendship
One can easily describe Montresor as a vengeful person. At the hands of Fortunato, Montresor suffered
profusely and in silence. His anger and turmoil began to boil over when he learned that Fortunato took his
honorable name as a joke.” I promised myself that I would make him pay for this — that I would have revenge.
“(Montresor P 68). At the point he made it his goal to have revenge. Montresor could have sat with Fortunato to
discuss his feelings about Fortunato’s actions, instead he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Vengeance was his.
Montresor was an intelligent man, because of this he was able to lure Fortunato indirectly to the vault His
encounter with Fortunato was thought out very well. He never once asked Fortunato to go with him to the vault.
He knew that Fortunato loved wine and that he believed no one knew wine better than him; these were key
elements in Montresor luring Fortunato. He simply explained his situation and Fortunato fell for it and offered
his services.
Finally, Montresor’s action exemplifies him as a cold-hearted man and a prideful man. Montresor was indignant
and because of this, he needed to make sure that Fortunato experienced the same amount of pain if not more.
Montresor took his time to plan out the death of Fortunato. He brought Fortunato down to the vault of his family,
chained him and enclosed him there. Montresor left him there to alive to die a miserable death and even
wished that he rests in peace. These actions are ones of someone who is cold hearted and someone who
doesn’t care about anyone but his self.
All in all, it is easy to see the personality of Montresor by his actions. He is vengeful, manipulative and
intelligent. Not just that, but he is cold-hearted. Unfortunately, his actions show that he isn’t a good man, mostly
because he was a hurting man.