The topic is to discuss binary oppositions in P.K. Page’s “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” and explore how the narrative also works to break down those oppositions. Your thesis will address not just how, but also why, the story takes this approach, and will consider concepts as well as how people are opposed to one another.
Attached lecture PowerPoint for the poem if needed.
Write an informative title that indicates the focus of your essay and identifies the text and author.
Draft a detailed, well-thought-out first paragraph that provides the full name of the text(s) and the author(s) and that begins with a general discussion of your topic and then introduces the narrower concern of your own essay and your plan of argument.
End the paragraph with your thesis statement — the hypothesis you intend to argue.
Format the page exactly as you will in your essay, modeling it on the sample page attached here.
— the title centered over the first paragraph
— all text, including the identifying information and title, double-spaced and in plain 12-point type with 2.5 cm margins.
On a second page, attach a list of your Work or Works Cited, in the correct MLA style. “requirements-for-essays” includes how to cite. Thank you!
