Unit+5+-+ISU

Activity 5.1 Choose a novel from the following list. You may choose off the list only with permission of the teacher.

The Handmaid’s Tale CF ATW ||  || Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park ||  || The Sweet Hereafter F BAN ||  || Weaveworld F BAR || Jordan || The Ghost Road F BAR || Will || Fahrenheit 451 ||  || Shockwave Rider ||  || The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount ||  || Disgrace ||  || Lord Jim || Cassie || Libra, Underground ||  || David Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities F DIC ||  || The Man in the Iron Mask F DUM ||  || Hiroshima Mon Amour ||  || The Name of the Rose F ECO ||  || The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch F ELI ||  || Not Wanted On The Voyage CF FIN ||  || The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Collector F FOW ||  || Brighton Rock ||  || The Mayor of Casterbridge F HAR ||  || Starship Troopers || Niko || Damian, Siddhartha F HES ||  || Broken Ground The Invention of the World ||  || Eyeless in Gaza, Antic Hay, Island F HUX || Courtney || The Last Temptation of Christ ||  || The Dispossessed The Wizard of Earthsea ||  || Love in a Time of Cholera ||  || The Cement Garden ||  || Jazz, The Bluest Eye F MOR || Jenna || A Bend in the River ||  || The Third Policeman ||  || The Skin of the Lion CF OND ||  || Mason & Dixon, V. F PYN ||   || For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down CF RIC ||  || St. Urbain’s Horsemen CF RIC ||  || The Satanic Verses ||  || Cancer Ward ||  || Cannery Row F STE ||  || Sirens of Titan Player Piano Slaughterhouse Five F VON || Emile || A Handful of Dust, The Loved One ||  || War of the Worlds F WEL || Dylan || The Midwich Cuckoos, The Trouble with Lichen ||  ||
 * Name || Title || Student ||
 * Achebe, Chinua || Things Fall Apart ||  ||
 * Adams, Richard || Watership Down F ADA || Ryan ||
 * Allende, Isabel || The House of Spirits F ALL ||  ||
 * Atwood, Margaret || Alias Grace,
 * Austen, Jane || Pride and Prejudice
 * Baker, Nicolson || The Mezzanine ||  ||
 * Banks, Russell || Continental Drift,
 * Barker, Clive || The Damnation Game,
 * Barker, Pat || Regeneration,
 * Bowles, Paul || The Sheltering Sky ||  ||
 * Boyle, T. Coraghessan || The Road to Wellville F BOY ||  ||
 * Bradbury, Ray || Something Wicked This way Comes,
 * Bradley, Marion Zimmer || The Mists of Avalon ||  ||
 * Bronte, Charlotte || Jane Eyre ||  ||
 * Bronte, Emily || Wuthering Heights ||  ||
 * Brunner, John || Stand on Zanzibar,
 * Bulgakov, Mikhail || The Master & Marguerita ||  ||
 * Burgess, Anthony || A Clockwork Orange ||  ||
 * Calvino, Italo || Invisible Cities
 * Camus, Albert || The Stranger ||  ||
 * Capote, Truman || In Cold Blood ||  ||
 * Chopin, Kate || The Awakening ||  ||
 * Choy, Wayson || The Jade Peony ||  ||
 * Coetzee, J.M. || Foe
 * Conrad, Joseph || The Heart of Darkness
 * Darwish, Mahmud || The Music of Human Flesh ||  ||
 * Davies, Robertson || Fifth Business ||  ||
 * de la Roche, Mazo || Jalna ||  ||
 * de Navarre, Marguerite || The Heptameron ||  ||
 * Delillo, Don || Mao II,
 * Desai, Kiran || The Inheritance of Loss ||  ||
 * Dick, Philip K || Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ||  ||
 * Dickens, Charles || Oliver Twist
 * du Maurier, Daphne || Rebecca, Jamaica Inn ||  ||
 * Dumas, Alexandre || The Count of Monte Cristo,
 * Duras, Marguerite || The Lover,
 * Eco, Umberto || The Island of the Day Before,
 * Eliot, George || Silas Marner,
 * Findley, Timothy || The Wars,
 * Fitzgerald, F. Scott || The Jazz Age ||  ||
 * Ford, Ford Madox || The Good Soldier ||  ||
 * Fowles, John || The Magus,
 * Gaskell, Elizabeth || North and South ||  ||
 * Gibson, William || Neuromancer ||  ||
 * Grass, Gunther || The Tin Drum ||  ||
 * Graves, Robert || I, Claudius ||  ||
 * Greene, Graham || The Third Man,
 * Haldeman, Joe || The Forever War || Dawson ||
 * Hammett, Dashiell || The Maltese Falcon ||  ||
 * Hamsun, Knut || Hunger, Pan ||  ||
 * Hardy, Thomas || Jude the Obscure,
 * Heinlein, Robert || Stranger in a Strange Land
 * Heller, Joseph || Catch 22 ||  ||
 * Herbert, Frank || Dune ||  ||
 * Hesse, Hermann || Magister Ludi,
 * Hodgins, Jack || Innocent Cities
 * Hospital, Janet Turner || Borderline ||  ||
 * Hulme, Keri || The Bone People F HUL ||  ||
 * Huxley, Aldous || Point Counterpoint,
 * Irving, John || The World According to Garp ||  ||
 * Ishiguro, Kazuo || The Remains of the Day F ISH ||  ||
 * Kafka, Franz || The Trial ||  ||
 * Kazantzakis, Nicos || Zorba the Greek,
 * Keneally, Thomas || Schindler’s List || Abby ||
 * Kesey, Ken || One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest F KES ||  ||
 * King, Stephen || The Stand ||  ||
 * King, Thomas || Green Grass, Running Water ||  ||
 * Knowles, John || A Separate Peace F KNO ||  ||
 * Koestler, Arthur || Darkness at Noon F KOE ||  ||
 * Kundera, Milan || The Unbearable Lightness of Being ||  ||
 * Laurence, Margaret || The Stone Angel || Brandon G. ||
 * Le Guin, Ursula K. || The Left Hand of Darkness,
 * Lewis, C.S. || The Screwtape Letters ||  ||
 * Lowry, Malcolm || Under the Volcano F LOW ||  ||
 * MacDonald, Ann-Marie || Fall On Your Knees ||  ||
 * Mahfouz, Naguib || Children of Gebelawi ||  ||
 * Mann, Klaus || Mephisto ||  ||
 * Mann, Thomas || A Death in Venice ||  ||
 * Marquez, Gabriel G. || 100 Years of Solitude,
 * Martel, Yann || Life of Pi || Jade-yn ||
 * McCarthy, Cormac || All the Pretty Horses ||  ||
 * McEwan, Ian || Atonement
 * Mistry, Rohinton || A Fine Balance; Such a Long Journey ||  ||
 * Mitchell, David || Cloud Atlas || Jennifer ||
 * Moore, Brian || The Luck of Ginger Coffey CF MOO ||  ||
 * Morrison, Toni || Song of Solomon,
 * Munro, Alice || The Moons of Jupiter* ||  ||
 * Naipaul, V.S. || The Mystic Masseur,
 * O'Brien, Flann || The Third Policeman ||  ||
 * O’Brien, Flann || At Swim Two Birds,
 * Ondaatje, Michael || The English Patient,
 * Orwell, George || 1984 || Colin ||
 * Proulx, Annie || The Shipping News ||  ||
 * Puig, Mario || Kiss of the Spider Woman ||  ||
 * Pynchon, Thomas || Gravity’s Rainbow,
 * Remarque, Erich Maria || All Quiet on the Western Front ||  ||
 * Rhys, Jean || Wide Sargasso Sea ||  ||
 * Ricci, Nino || Lives of the Saints ||  ||
 * Richards, David A. || Nights Below Station Street,
 * Richler, Mordecai || The Incomparable Atuk,
 * Rooke, Leon || Shakespeare’s Dog || Briana ||
 * Roy, Arundhati || The God of Small Things ||  ||
 * Rushdie, Salman || Midnight’s Children,
 * Saramago, Jose || The Stone Raft ||  ||
 * Shelley, Mary || Frankenstein ||  ||
 * Shields, Carol || The Stone Diaries ||  ||
 * Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr || A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
 * Spark, Muriel || The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ||  ||
 * Steinbeck, John || The Grapes of Wrath,
 * Stendhal || The Red and the Black ||  ||
 * Stockett, Kathryn || The Help || Jessica ||
 * Stoker, Bram || Dracula ||  ||
 * Styron, William || Sophie’s Choice F STY ||  ||
 * Svevo, Italo || Confessions of Zeno (Zeno's Conscience) ||  ||
 * Toole, John Kennedy || A Confederacy of Dunces ||  ||
 * Tournier, Michel || The Erl-King ||  ||
 * Urquhart, Jane || The Underpainter || Taneesha ||
 * van der Haeghe, Guy || The Englishman’s Boy || Brandon T ||
 * Vonnegut, Kurt || Cat’s Cradle
 * Walker, Alice || The Color Purple || Emma ||
 * Waugh, Evelyn || Brideshead Revisited,
 * Wells, H.G. || The Time Machine,
 * Weir, Andy || The Martian || Kyle ||
 * White, Patrick || Riders in the Chariot ||  ||
 * Woolf, Virginia || Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando F WOO ||  ||
 * Wyndham, John || The Chrysalids,

5.1.2 **Thesis**

This should be an arguable statement that you can support with logical reasoning and direct quotations from the novel. It is not a statement of fact nor is it a topic sentence. The topic sentence addresses the general subject of the essay. The thesis declares what the essay will attempt to prove. Here is an example of a thesis statement:

//High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.//

Thus the paper that follows should present an argument and give evidence to support the claim that students should pursue community projects before entering college

To place this is the context of a novel, try this one which I retrieved from @http://classweb.gmu.edu/rnanian/ThesisGuidelines.html:

//In __The Scarlet Letter__, Pearl may appear to be a living embodiment of Hester’s sin, but her ultimate fate suggests that she is an embodiment of true love, and that her flaws are caused only by her father’s refusal to claim her.//

This statement is a thesis because the claim that Pearl is “an embodiment of true love” requires support. The novel never says that directly. The writer can only persuade the reader to accept this thesis by quoting the text and then explaining how and why this interpretation makes sense.

For further information please consult your notes from class.

5.1.3 **Outline**

5.1.4 **Essay, 4 - 6 Pages for Academic Students, 3 - 5 pages for Applied level students**

The format of the essay should be in MLA style. This includes title page, block quotes, citation references, and bibliography as demonstrated in class. For additional information please consult the following site: Click Here

====**Please note: I highly recommend locating an e-text and/or audio version of the book you choose. E-text will help you when in comes time to include quotes in your essay. Also, many of us, like me, are not necessarily visual learners and for comprehension having the story read to you may be of considerable benefit.**====