2) Write topic sentences for every paragraph (if you want to combine some quotes/analysis into one paragraph, you can do so, or you can use one big quote per paragraph)
3) Write your full paragraphs (at least one by tomorrow), integrating pieces of your evidence into your analysis.
EX: ORIGINAL QUOTE: “This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live” (204).
BROKEN DOWN AND INTEGRATED INTO ANALYSIS:
Claudia’s remorse, over what happens to Pecola, is evident in the flower metaphor, at the end of the novel. Claudia categorizes young black girls, like Pecola, as “certain kinds of flowers”, for which the American “soil is bad” (204). This metaphor represents Claudia’s, and Morrison’s, commentary that American society is at fault for Pecola’s demise, and that it should be more concerned with nurturing these “flowers”, instead of “kill[ing]” them “of its own volition” (204). Claudia also blames herself, saying that “we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”, characterizing her guilt over ignoring, even allowing, Pecola’s suffering to continue (204).
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