“Thousand Cranes” by Kawabata
This paper should interpret Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes.
Position your paper claim at the end of your introductory paragraph. Defend your paper claim through your paper’s argument. Assume you are writing to an audience of people who have read the novel and care about interpreting it.
(avoid plot summary)
Pre-writing Process:
1. Identify a passage from the novel Thousand Cranes by Kawabata (10 lines or less, usually 3-4 lines)
2. Ask an interpretive question about that passage (a HOW or WHY question)
3. Use that interpretive question to develop a Contestable Interpretive Claim (an affirmative sentence on the page)
Paper Structure:
In your paper, use your introductory paragraph to introduce the PAPER CLAIM (your one-sentence Contestable Interpretive Claim). Use the rest of the paper to present an ARGUMENT for that claim using
EVIDENCE from the text.
