The Lord of the Flies ESSAY – ENGLISH II GT
OUTLINE DUE DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 6
TYPED ROUGH DRAFT DUE DATE: Friday, Oct. 9
TYPED FINAL COPY DUE DATE: Thursday, Oct. 15
THE PROMPT
The main characters (Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, Roger) can each be considered an archetype in The Lord of the Flies. Choose one and explain how Golding uses the archetype to develop a theme, or commentary on life. Support your thesis with details highlighting the character’s personal strengths, character flaws, interactions with others and relationship to the island.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Your paper must adhere to ALL MLA format guidelines. Use your MLA handbook.
2. Your paper must be typed, double-spaced, one-inch margins, size 12 font, Times New Roman ONLY. No bold or special fonts anywhere!
3. Your paper should fall between 2 to 3 pages to adequately address the topic
4. You must use direct references from the text, with proper documentation. All quotes must be embedded or tied to a sentence. NO FLOATING QUOTES!!
5. A Works Cited page is required.
6. An outline AND complete rough draft with evidence of editing is required. No paper will be accepted without this evidence of work.
7. Your paper is due on Thursday, Oct. 15 at the beginning of the period. Be prepared to hand in your paper when the bell rings. Please have all papers in order and stapled BEFORE coming to class that day.
8. If you are present for any part of the day on Tuesday, YOUR PAPER IS DUE. If you are absent on Tuesday, your paper is due THE DAY YOU RETURN, even if I don’t see you that day. No extensions will be given.
Hints to follow:
· Use ESSAY language. This means do not make jokes, try to be funny
· This paper can sound like YOU, but this should be the YOU who knows your literature and is writing a FORMAL paper.
· You must have a developed and focused THESIS STATEMENT. Ask yourself what you are going to PROVE. Your thesis statement should address this question.
· You must use direct textual evidence and then INTERPRET that textual evidence as to its purpose in PROVING your thesis.
· Never begin a paragraph with a quote, and never end a paragraph with a quote!
· Topic sentences should be provable.
· Forbidden words: I, you, we, us, thing (be more specific), stuff (too colloquial)
· No contractions
· Stay in the present tense
· Stay chronological
· No “chapter” references