ESSAY III PROMPT
Essay III will be a close reading of a moment or moments in a story from J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories.
Do not forget that your close reading must be motivated by a strong thesis (academic argument).
This essay will not involve outside research. This is not a biographically inflected study; not a summary or overview of plot.
The paper is an occasion to confront, with fierce attention and every ounce of focused intelligence you can muster, the creation of another human being who was working on her or his art with comparable fierce intelligence and creative energy.
Recommended length: 5-7 pages
MLA FORMAT, WORKS CITED
Give your paper an interesting title.