Requirements:
- Write a 3-4 pages (12pt Times New Roman) or 950-1300 words word essay that compares and/or contrasts Serhiy Zhadan’s “Take Only What You Can Carry” and Fady Joudah’s “National Park” (the texts NOT the authors’ biographies).
- Use MLA format for this essay. Use appropriate supporting quotes and document them using MLA parenthetical citations in the text and provide an MLA Works Cited page. (The Works Cited page does not count in your page and/or word count.)
- Choose one of the following options:
Option 1: Choose your own three points of comparison to compare these two texts.
Option 2: Compare the concepts of home and existence in Zhadan’s in “Take Only What You Can Carry” with the concepts of home and existence in Joudah’s “National Park.” Choose three points of comparison.
Option 3: Choose either Zhadan’s “Take Only What You Can Carry” or Joudah’s “National Park.” Then, choose a song, poem, news report, or short story that appeals to you. Choose three points of comparison.
- Explain the significance of the quotes you include in your essay to support your thesis.
IMPORTANT: Choose your three points of comparison and discuss them with instructor before you begin an outline. You can email these three points of comparison to instructor for approval or discuss them with your instructor in person.
Helpful Tips:
Consider in your introduction, the lives of the authors or the circumstances under which each work was written. These leaders’ biographical and cultural backgrounds helped form their philosophies and approaches. The introduction should clearly state the author’s names and titles of their essays for clarity.
Make sure that you have a specific, significant thesis. Remember, you are comparing the essays and the author’s writing strategies, not their biographies. Concentrate especially on the organization of your essay (Point-by-Point organization—see lecture on Writing a Compare/Contrast Essay).
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