Assignment 2: Literary Analysis This week you will have the opportunity to practice the skills of finding peer-reviewed sources and integrating material from these secondary (outside) sources into your writing. First, go to the South University Online Library and find at least one credible, peer-reviewed scholarly source that relates to your essay comparing The Odyssey and one of the following texts: · The Song of Roland · Dante’s Inferno Ideally, these sources will support the argument that you developed in your essay for W4: Assignment 2. Next, retrieve the essay you submitted to the W4: Assignment 2 Dropbox, along with the feedback about it that you received from your instructor. Open a new Word document and copy and paste only the introduction of the W4: Assignment 2essay onto it. Decide whether to revise the introduction based on feedback from your instructor and/or additional ideas that you might have had since you first wrote it. Go ahead and make any revisions you consider necessary. After that, or if you do not wish to revise the introduction, copy and paste the next paragraph to your document, review it and revise as necessary, substantiating and reinforcing (when necessary and appropriate) your argument with quotes, paraphrases, or summaries from the peer-reviewed source that you retrieved from the library. Remember that quoted material should not exceed 25% of the essay. Repeat this process with all the essay’s paragraphs up through the conclusion. After incorporating scholarly material into your paper, it should be between 1,000 to 1,200 words long. Now that you have copied, pasted, and revised all the essay’s paragraphs, go over the paper to determine if it is properly formatted in APA style (from start to finish) and includes in-text and reference list citations, which also should be formatted in APA style. Next, use the spell-check tool in Microsoft Word to identify misspellings. Finally, read through the essay one last time, looking for typos and glitches that spell check might have missed. This handout will help guide you in formatting your essay using APA style. You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template. Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources. Name your document SU_ENG2002_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. ByTuesday, March 1, 2016, submit your rough draft in a Microsoft Word document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Wrote a complete introduction that engages your classmates' interest, explains the topic, and provides a detailed thesis that identifies your argument and maps the paper for your audience. 20 Used key passages and quotations from the texts to support and defend your thesis. Supporting examples and quotations are fully analyzed. The link between the thesis and the evidence is clearly explained. 40 Examined in your essay's discussion of evidence what the text suggests about the culture, literary movements, phi ...

1. Assignment 2: Literary Analysis
This week you will have the opportunity to practice the skills of
finding peer-reviewed sources and integrating material from
these secondary (outside) sources into your writing.
First, go to the South University Online Library and find at
least one credible, peer-reviewed scholarly source that relates to
your essay comparing The Odyssey and one of the following
texts:
· The Song of Roland
· Dante’s Inferno
Ideally, these sources will support the argument that you
developed in your essay for W4: Assignment 2.
Next, retrieve the essay you submitted to the W4: Assignment 2
Dropbox, along with the feedback about it that you received
from your instructor. Open a new Word document and copy and
paste only the introduction of the W4: Assignment 2essay onto
it. Decide whether to revise the introduction based on feedback
from your instructor and/or additional ideas that you might have
had since you first wrote it. Go ahead and make any revisions
you consider necessary.
After that, or if you do not wish to revise the introduction, copy
and paste the next paragraph to your document, review it and
revise as necessary, substantiating and reinforcing (when
necessary and appropriate) your argument with quotes,
paraphrases, or summaries from the peer-reviewed source that
you retrieved from the library. Remember that quoted material
should not exceed 25% of the essay.
Repeat this process with all the essay’s paragraphs up through
the conclusion. After incorporating scholarly material into your
paper, it should be between 1,000 to 1,200 words long.
Now that you have copied, pasted, and revised all the essay’s
paragraphs, go over the paper to determine if it is properly
formatted in APA style (from start to finish) and includes in-
text and reference list citations, which also should be formatted

2. in APA style. Next, use the spell-check tool in Microsoft Word
to identify misspellings. Finally, read through the essay one last
time, looking for typos and glitches that spell check might have
missed.
This handout will help guide you in formatting your essay using
APA style.
You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.
Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for
properly citing resources.
Name your document
SU_ENG2002_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. ByTuesday,
March 1, 2016, submit your rough draft in a Microsoft Word
document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Wrote a complete introduction that engages your classmates'
interest, explains the topic, and provides a detailed thesis that
identifies your argument and maps the paper for your audience.
20
Used key passages and quotations from the texts to support and
defend your thesis. Supporting examples and quotations are
fully analyzed. The link between the thesis and the evidence is
clearly explained.
40
Examined in your essay's discussion of evidence what the text
suggests about the culture, literary movements, philosophies, or
ideologies that influenced it.
20
Revised the Week 4 essay and incorporated one credible
scholarly source into the argument.
20
Organized the paper effectively with unified paragraphs, each of
which has a topic sentence and uses effective transitions to the
next paragraph.wrote for me
20

3. Provided an appropriate conclusion that reinforces the paper's
main ideas.
20
Communicated clearly using your own words for the majority of
the paper with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
throughout.
20
Formatted the paper in APA style throughout, including a title
page, running head, headings between sections, in-text citations,
and a reference list.
20
Met the word requirement.
20
Total:
200
This is the essay you wrote me in week 4 and the comments the
teacher made. I made a 96 on that one.
Good survey of instances of loyalty and betrayal in both works,
but absence of Ganelon’s betrayal in The Song of Roland is a
problem (you need to add that to your revision of this paper
next week).
Loyalty and betrayal are two virtues that exist on different sides
when it comes to trust. The song of Roland dicusses the Battle
of Roncevaux Pass. It also has some courageous features of the
Odyssey. Most of the early works or poetry and literature
depicted these two virtues rather vividly. What we see in these
works of literature is loyalty that runs in the family but is
broken by one of its members because of either greed or
jealousy. Such virtues as loyalty or betrayal were reflected by
authors in their literature works mostly because of what they
had seen or experienced. This means that they often would shed
light on how the society was at their time. I will discuss the
moral and practical implication of loyalty and betrayal and how
it is reflected in TheOdyssey andThe Song of Roland which are
very remarkable works of literature I have had the pleasure of

4. studying.
Loyalty in The Odyssey is first portrayed by Eurycleia who is
Odysseus old nurse. She remains loyal to Odysseus, his wife
Penelope and the whole household even in the absence of
Odysseus by protecting his possessions and family. Eurycleia’s
loyalty can also be seen in her love for Telemachus, whom she
treats like her own son (Homer, 2000). Her loyalty is clearly
below,
“So he uttered and the dear nurse Eurykleia cried out while
lamenting bitterly … ‘my beloved child, why has this intention
come into your mind and why do you wish to wander … an only
and loved son? Odysseus has perished far from his country in
some outlandish region. But these men will plot evils against
you ….It is not right for you to wander and suffer hardships on
the barren wide sea.’ ”
Penelope has been faithful to Odysseus for over 20 years. This
shows loyalty as she waits for him to return. Since she is
Odysseus’s wife, she endures the 20 years while persevering the
aggressiveness of the suitor who want her hand in marriage. The
suitors are aggressive because they think that Odysseus will not
return home because he is either lost or dead and also giving the
fact that he is king therefore they want to overthrow him
(Mucci, T., Caldwell, B., & H., 2009). Penelope dodges them by
playing them against each other just to avoid them. She says,
“I have taken to my bed, my throbbing heart, about to break,
anxieties swarming, piercing… I might go mad with grief”
In the Song of Roland, loyalty is also portrayed where a vassal
would give his total loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection
and revenge in case the vassal was killed. In The Song of
Roland, vassalage can be seen to resemble Christianity where
Roland’s supreme liege lord is God and by serving his lord he
fulfills the roles of a Christian (Merwin, W. S., & Clermont-
Ferrand, M., 2001). Therefore the loyalty runs both ways.
Another form of loyalty in The Song of Roland is portrayed by
Turpin who is and Archbishop who serves the king and emperor.
When Turpin feels that he is close to death the says the

5. following words,
“My own death causes me great pain, for I might not see the
mighty emperor”
The suitors who are after Penelope’s hand in marriage show a
great deal of betrayal. Considering that Odysseus is their King
which means that they should be loyal to him and his rule,
instead, the suitors try to gain the affection of Odysseus wife
which is the ultimate show of betrayal towards Odysseus.
Another act of betrayal on The Odyssey is portrayed by the
sailors who try to open the bag of wind thinking that they will
find silver and gold in the bags. Instead they open the bag and
strong winds gush out making the ships to lose their balance.
This lack of trust is reflected in the quote below,
‘Nevertheless we sailed on, night and day, for nine days…but
my accomplices talked and said that I was bringing silver and
gold home with me, given to me by great-hearted Aiolos, son of
Hippotas…and the evil counsel of my accomplices prevailed,
then they opened the bag and the winds suddenly burst out…and
swept and washed them over the water crying, away from their
own country.’
Blancandrin clearly shows the virtue of betrayal in The Song
of Roland where he make promises to save Spain through
cooperation and conversion (Duggan, J. J., 1973). This is
quoted below,
Blancandrin was one of the most cunning pagans, by his
courage he was very much a knight:
He had all the required qualities to help his lord.
And he said to the King: "Don't be alarmed! Offer the wicked
and fierce Charles loyal service..."
We have therefore seen how betrayal and loyalty have been
portrayed in The Odyssey and The Song of Roland. It is clear
that the enemy is always within for example the suitors who
wait until the King is gone for them to present themselves.
Loyalty on the other hand has mostly been depicted as an
obligation rather than self-will as seen in the case of the lords
and vassals in The Song of Roland. Therefore it is now clear

6. that both virtues are evident in the two works of literature.
References
Duggan, J. J. (1973). The Song of Roland; formulaic style and
poetic craft. Berkeley: University of California Press
Homer. ( 2000). The Odyssey. Stanley Lombardo. Canada:
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 20.
Merwin, W. S., & Clermont-Ferrand, M. (2001). The song of
Roland. New York: Modern Library.
Mucci, T., Caldwell, B., & H. (2009). The odyssey. New York:
Sterling.
South university online lecture. ( 2016). Week 4 Assignment
2: The Songs of Roland. Retrieved from myeclassonline.
Assignment 2: Literary Analysis
This week you will have the opportunity to practice the skills of
finding peer
-
reviewed sources and
integrating material from these secondary (outside) sources into
your writing.
First, go to the South University Online Library and find at
least one credible, peer
-
reviewed scholarly
source that relates to your essay comparing
The Odyssey

7. and one of the following texts:
·
The Song of Roland
·
Dante’s
Inferno
Ideally, these sources will support the argument that you
developed in your essay for
W4: Assignment 2
.
Next, retrieve the essay you submitted to the
W4: Assignment 2 Dropbox
, along with the feedback
about it that you received from your instructor.
Open a new Word document and copy and paste only the
introduction of the
W4: Assignment 2
essay onto it. Decide whether to revise the introduction based
on
feedback from your instructor and/or additional ideas that you
might have had since you first wrote
it. Go
ahead and make any revisions you consider necessary.
After that, or if you do not wish to revise the introduction, copy

8. and paste the next paragraph to your
document, review it and revise as necessary, substantiating and
reinforcing (when necessary
and
appropriate) your argument with quotes, paraphrases, or
summaries from the peer
-
reviewed source that
you retrieved from the library. Remember that quoted material
should not exceed 25% of the essay.
Repeat this process with all the essay’s paragraphs u
p through the conclusion. After incorporating
scholarly material into your paper, it should be between 1,000
to 1,200 words long.
Now that you have copied, pasted, and revised all the essay’s
paragraphs, go over the paper to
determine if it is properly for
matted in APA style (from start to finish) and includes in
-
text and reference list
citations, which also should be formatted in APA style. Next,
use the spell
-
check tool in Microsoft Word to
identify misspellings. Finally, read through the essay one last t
ime, looking for typos and glitches that
spell check might have missed.
This handout will help guide you in
f
ormatting your essay using APA style
.

9. You may create your essay in this
APA
-
formatted template
.
Use this
APA Citation Helper
as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
Name your document SU_
ENG2002_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. By
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
,
submit your rough draft in a Microsoft Word document to the
W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox
.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum
Points
Wrote a complete introduction that engages your classmates'
interest, explains the topic, and provides a detailed thesis that
identifies your argument and maps the paper for your audience.
20
Used key passages and quotations from the texts to support
and

10. defend your thesis. Supporting examples and quotations are
fully
analyzed. The link between the thesis and the evidence is
clearly
explained.
40
Examined in your essay's discussion of evidence what the text
20