Please revise attachment in accordance with the requirements listed below. Why Write a Literary Analysis? Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions with society. Literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at work in literature, which gives us greater insight into the personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a literature course in that it improves our writing, reading, and critiquing abilities overall. How to Write a Literary Analysis It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature might not always be obvious. Considering how an author addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can help you discover what literature represents about the human experience and condition. With this in mind, consider that your thesis might be a claim about how two pieces make similar representations, or it can show two different points of view on a similar issue. The literary analysis should be organized around your thesis (argument), which is the controlling idea of the entire essay. In the Week Three assignment, you identified two conflicts and created an initial thesis statement in relation to two of the literary works from the List of Literary Works. In this assignment, you will refine that thesis even further and build on your overall argument utilizing the literary techniques below. Reflect on feedback from your Instructor and peers in previous weeks to help you revise your rough draft into a final paper. For this literary analysis, write a 1250- to 1600-word essay in which you do the following: •Revise/develop the thesis from Week Three based on the feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should focus on the conflict(s) you chose to write about. This thesis should provide deeper insight into the possible meanings surrounding the chosen conflict(s) that you see in the chosen literary texts. Throughout your analysis, you must use at least two primary sources and two sources from the Ashford University Library to support your thesis. •Review and incorporate instructor and classroom feedback on at least one conflict listed in Types of Conflict Found in Literature from two literary works in this course. One of the literary works must be a short story. See the List of Literary Works and Types of Conflict Found in Literature. •Analyze three literary techniques to help define and draw out the conflict(s) chosen. •Explain how the texts utilize the literary techniques below to describe the conflict(s). •Compare and contrast the two texts you chose. List of Literary Works For your Literary Analysis, select at least two works from the List of Literary Works that share the same type(s) of conflict(s). Remember, one of them must be a.

1. Please revise attachment in accordance with the requirements
listed below.
Why Write a Literary Analysis?
Literature teaches us about the value of conflict. We experience
conflict in our personal relationships and in our interactions
with society. Literary analysis helps us recognize the conflict at
work in literature, which gives us greater insight into the
personal conflicts that we face. In addition, learning how to
closely read, analyze, and critique a text is beneficial beyond a
literature course in that it improves our writing, reading, and
critiquing abilities overall.
How to Write a Literary Analysis
It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature
might not always be obvious. Considering how an author
addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more
complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in
multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can
help you discover what literature represents about the human
experience and condition. With this in mind, consider that your
thesis might be a claim about how two pieces make similar
representations, or it can show two different points of view on a
similar issue.
The literary analysis should be organized around your thesis
(argument), which is the controlling idea of the entire essay. In
the Week Three assignment, you identified two conflicts and
created an initial thesis statement in relation to two of the
literary works from the List of Literary Works. In this
assignment, you will refine that thesis even further and build on
your overall argument utilizing the literary techniques below.
Reflect on feedback from your Instructor and peers in previous
weeks to help you revise your rough draft into a final paper.
For this literary analysis, write a 1250- to 1600-word essay in
which you do the following:
•Revise/develop the thesis from Week Three based on the
feedback you have received. Again, the thesis should focus on

2. the conflict(s) you chose to write about. This thesis should
provide deeper insight into the possible meanings surrounding
the chosen conflict(s) that you see in the chosen literary texts.
Throughout your analysis, you must use at least two primary
sources and two sources from the Ashford University Library to
support your thesis.
•Review and incorporate instructor and classroom feedback on
at least one conflict listed in Types of Conflict Found in
Literature from two literary works in this course. One of the
literary works must be a short story. See the List of Literary
Works and Types of Conflict Found in Literature.
•Analyze three literary techniques to help define and draw out
the conflict(s) chosen.
•Explain how the texts utilize the literary techniques below to
describe the conflict(s).
•Compare and contrast the two texts you chose.
List of Literary Works
For your Literary Analysis, select at least two works from the
List of Literary Works that share the same type(s) of conflict(s).
Remember, one of them must be a short story. You can either
compare two short stories, a short story and a poem, or a short
story and a play.
List of Types of Conflicts Found in Literature
In the document Types of Conflicts Found in Literature, you
will find a list of possible conflicts to explore in your Literary
Analysis. Please note that you must write about one of the
conflicts in the list of literary texts provided. To help you better
understand each conflict and how it might be apparent,
examples from popular culture have been provided. However,
please note that your Literary Analysis must not be about
popular culture, television, or movies. The examples provided
are just that--examples. Please also note that it is possible for a
text to have more than one conflict at work. The repeated
references to conflicts in The Simpsons provide further context
on how multiple conflicts might be present in a single work.
Other examples of conflict are also provided.

3. List of Literary Techniques
In your analysis, address at least three of the literary techniques
(as defined in Chapters 2 and 4) listed in the document Literary
Techniques, describing their relationships with the conflict(s)--
which provide deeper insight into possible meaning(s) found in
literature--you are addressing in your paper.
Assignment Requirements
•Topic: Your paper must address two of the texts, at least one of
the conflicts, and three of the literary techniques as listed in the
guidelines.
•Length: Your paper must be double spaced and 1250 to 1600
words in length (excluding title and references pages).
•Sources: You must utilize at least two primary sources to
support your thesis (including the course text) and at least two
scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library (at least
four sources in total). You may also use other academic sources
acquired from other classes that pertain to the literary theme
and/or conflict.
•Elements of Academic Writing: Please see the Guide to
Writing a Compare/Contrast Essay resource, which provides
information regarding how to effectively organize this essay.
•APA: Your assignment must be formatted according to APA
style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. ◦Separate Title
Page: Must include a separate title page that lists the following:
an original title, your name, date of submission, and the
professor’s name.
◦Separate Reference Page: At the end of your paper, include a
separate references page that lists all sources utilized for and
cited within your analysis.
◦Proper Citations: All sources must be properly cited according
to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, both
within the text of your paper and on the references page.