Writing Homework Help

Your audience is future students of Composition II, and your purpose is to prepare them for the work ahead of them. You’ve come to the end of the class and are in a position to advise and encourage others

I attached the essay rubric to help with the assignment

Consider the works of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and its lasting value. Discuss one aspect of the work – a character, a setting, a mind-blowing passage – and why it resonates with you. What are some of the lines or moments that you find especially insightful or astute? How does it reflect the concerns in our world?

You may wish to consider the following areas as you organize the two body paragraphs for your essay:

Plot Summary – What happens in the plot that makes this work worth remembering? Avoid merely retelling the story, here!

Conflicts – What conflicts does the work include?

Character – How does the writer reveal character? With which character(s) do you sympathize? Are the characters plausible? What do minor characters contribute to the work?

Setting – What does setting (time and place of the action) contribute to the work?

Symbolism – Do certain characters, settings or actions seem to you to stand for something in addition to themselves? In other words, are they symbolic?

Theme – What is the theme? That is, what does the work add up to? Does the theme reinforce values that you hold, or does it challenge them

Connection – How or why did this particular selection come to mind?

2. Complete an informal outline for a 4-paragraph essay:

1. Introduction
2. Body paragraph 1
3. Body paragraph 2
4. Conclusion