Question

DUE IN 1 HOUR please help me pass this semester i will get in trouble if i fail please write the story out. 1. Choose ONE, short story to annotate & analyze:

"August Heat", "Marigolds", The Most Dangerous Game, or "A Horseman in the Sky
2. Read and annotate the text.
Annotate for character descriptions and realizations to help you identify a theme
• Look for literary devices (such as symbols, foreshadowing, imagery, irony, repetition, personification, etc.)
3. Write a text analysis for the story you annotated. Your essay should answer the question,
"How does the author show the theme of the story through the characters and literary devices?"
4. Drafting- Use this ESSAY OUTLINE to help you write.
Write the first draft of your analysis and remember to save often. Make sure to include evidence from the text supporting your points!
Your first paragraph should be an introduction paragraph that introduces TAG and clearly states the literary devices and how they connect to the theme(s) in the thesis statement.
Your body paragraph should explain this connection using at least 3 quotes from the text as evidence.
Your final paragraph should be a concluding paragraph which wraps up vour main ideas and re-states
vour theme
5. Submit your analysis 3- paragraph mini essay to the assignment folder in the course for grading

Answer 1

Below is an example of a three-paragraph mini essay analyzing the short story "August Heat" by W.F. Harvey, focusing on the theme of the uncanny and how the author uses literary devices to convey this theme.

In W.F. Harvey's "August Heat," the ordinary is subtly transformed into the uncanny, unsettling the reader and blurring the lines between reality and perception.

The oppressive heat, the protagonist's encounter with a man from a newspaper photograph, and the grotesque imagery of Atkinson's face combine to create an atmosphere of dread and ambiguity.

Therefore, via the encounter with this stranger, already hooked with unease, it takes a bizarre turn when Withencroft stumbles upon Atkinson working as a stonemason in a seemingly ordinary town. The mallet and chisel, symbols of both creation and destruction, further heighten the sense of an unsettling reality.