Welcome back to the how to write a literary analysis class. This specialty writing could be called all kinds of names here now a literary critic, or an literary analyst, whatever it is. This specialty writing is important for a lot of reasons we discussed in our introduction, that this is the portion of the class, we're going to take everything that you've analyzed, and now you're going to put it in a presentation, you're going to either write it, you could write it as a book review or a paper. Or you could take this same organization that I'm going to teach you and put it in a PowerPoint presentation. But I want you to think of however you present it as an hour class, your introduction, your body, and conclusion. And remember, this is where you start creating a rough draft.

So it might be kind of messy as you go through and that's completely Okay, because I will be talking about editing and revising as well. The fun stuff. The first piece is your, your introduction, and I left a note sheet under the project section that you can follow along and write if writing is something and taking notes as something that helps you recall the information I would highly suggest downloading that and following along as we go. The pieces of the introduction that I want you to pay attention to the things that need to be in this part of your analysis is your opening lead. You need to state your author's name, the title of the work and include a brief summary. But the most important part is your thesis statement.

Summarizing which you intend to illustrate, improve and the body of the essay This part is the hardest part to write. So when you go and you write it, I'll go through this again at the end, but you write your summary. First, you include the author's full name and your title first, because those things are easy. You just did all of that work. You've just analyzed the literature. So that is where you start.

And then you go and continue the rest of your paper after writing your thesis statement, because the lead starting is the hardest part to accomplish. And there's this video that I've also included the link on your project section that really hones in on this particular piece. And it's so good that I had to include the link, but it's a teacher TED Talk, or attended or it's on Vimeo. And anyway, I highly suggest you check it out, just so you understand more about the lead. And it's really creative way of presenting this idea. The body of the analysis is the next this is the meat of your paper.

There's a lot that goes into this particular section. And what I've created for you as an outline of how it should be organized, it doesn't necessarily need to be limited to three topic sentences. But again, I showed this to you so that you saw the pattern is the same. Throughout you need a topic sentence your supporting details, you need quotations in each paragraph, you need your analysis, the explanation of your evidence, and then you need a transitional sentence between each of your paragraphs. Please don't leave that out. Otherwise, it's jolting for your reader and going from one idea to the next without this transitional sentence.

I don't particularly enjoy reading a paragraph like that I don't see how it flows. In fact, it doesn't. And most of the time, if those transitional sentences are missing, I stop reading, because it's hard to follow thoughts. But each paragraph should be arranged the same way. Not necessarily in the order of supporting details, quotations from a story then your explanation of your evidence. It doesn't necessarily need to be in that order every single time.

But this is just what needs to be included in that paragraph or this particular slide, or this part of your presentation. Lastly, is your conclusion. This is just creatively rewording the ideas that you've already talked about in your body in your introduction. This is where you emphasize the things that you're analyzing. This is where you restate that very important thesis. And you put it all together.

Now, how do you get started? You have a way to organize your paper. But what now? So this is where you brainstorm. This is important because you take all of those things that you learned and you try to just put it all in one place. You've gone through and recognized and identified the elements of plot.

What are the main ideas or the main events in this particular story? What were the conflicts? What did the protagonists want what was keeping the protagonists from getting what he or she wanted. And then you take apart and you start recognizing repetitions and literary devices that were used quite frequently. And this is where you just take all of that and you start to pull out some major Or themes throughout the story. And then you start thinking about how you want to analyze this particular piece.

So what point are you trying to prove in? There's a story, the lady or the tiger, and I wrote a literary literary analysis about this short story because the, the author ends it in this cliffhanger, genius ending. It's amazing. And it's from. It's an old old story about how this father finds out his daughter is, is having a love affair with a servant and she is the Princess of the kingdom. He is the King and he is barbarian.

And she also is like him in many ways. Well, they also have a, an arena, and criminals are scientists arena and they have to choose a door there's they have a choice between just two of them. And in one is a beautiful woman that they can marry. And then the other is a just ravenous tiger. And the princess find out finds out what is behind the two doors after her father sends her lover to the arena as punishment for his crimes. And she knows which door which are what is behind which door.

And so she motions to the one on the right. And he opens the door and that's where the story ends. And I've had my students write a literary analysis on which door or what do you think was behind that door? What did she pick? knowing her character know, seeing the specific events that have come out and the things that the author has said about her and her father's who's specifically? What do you think was behind that door.

And here you have your thesis statement. I hope that explanation was helpful. Now that you have your brainstorm now that you have your thesis, now it's time to get organized. So you take this idea that the hourglass and you start organizing your paper in this way. Start with your, your thesis statement and write it out. Writing that out will help you write out your main idea for your paragraphs that support that thesis and the details that go under that particular main idea and so forth.

Once you're organized, then you write your title, your author in your summary first because hardest part is getting started. And since you've already done the work for analyzing the literature, now you're just summarizing it. And it needs to be brief. Don't, in the section, give away. What happens. Unless, of course, you're in a class where everybody has read that story.

But if it's one that you're going to post a book review on Goodreads, I wouldn't recommend giving away these important details or, you know what, these big events I wouldn't give those away and what happens in those big events, but find a way to summarize it creatively and with brevity without telling the reader what is going to happen. Now, the tip, right, you your magnetic lead, last because Because it needs to be the piece that draws your audience in. How are you going to do that? A lot of people suggest using questions and quotation marks or a lot of people use dictionary definitions. That's what everyone does. So I don't encourage that.

I encourage you to, like I said, brainstorm, write your summary. First, write your paper if you have to, and then go back and write your lead. And if you're really struggling with this piece, go and watch that video that I provided a link for. It's creative. And it will help you understand this particular piece even better with that your project is to take a piece of literature, it could even be the lady or the tiger. In fact, I'll post that story on the under the project section.

It's a wonderful short story. And then I will post my example as well. And then you share your literary analysis. Based on this outline this class that I've just given you and how I've led you through it. I look forward to seeing what you've done and talking to you there.