This is a preparatory assignment for the final criticism essay. Your outline is a critical part of your writing, and it will help me ensure that your paper has an argument and attempts to prove it paragraph by paragraph. As a reminder: the final criticism essay can expand upon your unit 2 or 4 essay, or you can prepare an entirely different argument based on any of the literature we’ve read this semester.
Please use the attached document as a “fill-in-the-blanks” outline.
Unit 7 Outline Introduction Hook (introducing your theme, getting the reader to understand your opinion of the theme): 2-3 sentences Transition (mention titles, authors, plot relevance): 3-4 sentences Thesis (your argument): 1-2 sentences Body Paragraphs (please provide 3+ of these!!) Topic Sentence (a claim, never a fact. The thing you’ll prove in the body of the paragraph) Major Idea (a way that you’re going to prove the claim. Your opinion of a situation you’ll present) Minor Idea (quote/paraphrase/textual evidence) Minor Idea 2 (analysis of the quote. 2-3 sentences. What your quote means and how it proves your topic sentence is valid) Repeat Major+Minor combo a minimum of 2 times per paragraph Conclusion An upside-down version of your intro -restate thesis -discuss how the literature prove that your thesis argument is valid -discuss theme. Hot tip: I always end with a sentence in this pattern: “If _____, then perhaps _____.” For instance: If the adults in their lives were more involved, perhaps Romeo and Juliet would still be alive. KEEP SCROLLING FOR OUTLINE TO USE Intro Hook- Transition- Thesis- Body I Topic sentence- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Clincher- Body II Topic sentence- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Clincher- Body III Topic sentence- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Major Idea 1- Minor (quote)- Minor (analysis)- Clincher- (if you need another paragraph, by all means…) Conclusion Restate thesis Mention texts used Leave the reader thinking.. (Perhaps if _____, then _____) Intro Hook- The theme of the essay is to understand the sexuality in two different pieces of literature and understand how the role of gender shaped it. The presence of the hero makes the story interesting and engaging to read. It shows how men and women are stereotyped in different roles. Transition- The Man who visited the Thunderbirds was written by Paul Radin and is part of Winnebago Tales. The motif of the story is not to be deceived by the evil. Gilgamesh was authored by Joan London depicting the power of position and does not establish any correlation between masculinity and sexuality. Thesis- In Gilgamesh women were treated with respect while males are considered to be powerful. In Thunderbird the gender is more or less stereotyped. Body I Topic sentence- Treatment of different gender in the plays Major Idea 1- The gender are different personalities and thus they have different actions towards the responses given by the world Minor (quote)- There were ten brothers out of which youngest one used to be at home. Minor (analysis)- The brothers used to go out for earning a living Major Idea 2- Men are powerful and are representative of leadership. Minor (quote)- He built wall around Uruk Minor (analysis)- This shows his strength and the wisdom he holds being a man Major Idea 3- The gender stereotype highlights the positive characteristic of one gender and out shadows the another one. Minor (quote)- Men are posed as powerful and strong Minor (analysis)- They are decision makers and masculine. Clincher- Men are strong and are born leaders Body II Topic sentence- How genders use their wisdom to shape human civilization? Major Idea 1- The others participants of the society are required to grow as individuals Minor (quote)- The orphan boy took help of others to escape the fate. Minor (analysis)- It is important to believe in strengths of other genders Major Idea 2- One gender poses itself as a leader by doing cruelty whereas society progress in co-existence with peace and love. Minor (quote)- Gilgamesh want to escape death and he fought till he surrendered at last Minor (analysis)- It is important to accept love, embrace it and be generous. Major Idea 3- Gender stereotypes holds society back at large. Minor (quote)- The culture has forced people to obey strong and powerful so that they remain pleased Minor (analysis)- This is not wisdom, It is bowing in front of displeasure of supremacy. Clincher-Women do not hold important pace while making decisions. Conclusion The gender roles in literature define men as gods and relate their actions to the functioning of social organizations. Gilgamesh was strong and want to escape death. In the man who visited thunderbirds the decision of elder brother was binding on younger brothers and they have to follow him. They consider women with respect but suppress their wisdom with the men’s masculinity. Perhaps the women were not allowed t be participative in such decisions. If they would have been allowed how the climax of the literature will be is interesting to imagine. someTitle gilgamesh Y7886-Helle.indb 1Y7886-Helle.indb 1 6/25/21 2:28 PM6/25/21 2:28 PM Helle, Sophus. Gilgamesh : A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Yale University Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kean/detail.action?docID=6721718. Created from kean on 2022-04-03 09:07:55. C op yr ig ht © 2 02 1. Y al e U ni ve rs ity P re ss . A ll rig ht s re se rv ed . This page intentionally left blank Helle, Sophus. Gilgamesh : A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Yale University Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kean/detail.action?docID=6721718. Created from kean on 2022-04-03 09:07:55. C op yr ig ht © 2 02 1. Y al e U ni ve rs ity P re ss . A ll rig ht s re se rv ed . — 3 — tablet i Who saw the deep There was a man who saw the deep, the bedrock of the land, 1 who knew the ways and learned all things: Gilgamesh saw the deep, the bedrock of the land, he knew the ways and learned all things. He sought out rulers everywhere 5 and came to grasp all wisdom in the world. He discovered a secret, revealed a hidden matter, and brought home a story from before the Flood. He came back from far roads, exhausted but at peace, as he set down all his trials on a slab of stone. 10 He built the wall around Uruk the Sheepfold and around that holy treasury, the Temple of Heaven. See that wall—white as wool! Behold the bulwark that cannot be rivaled. Step across the ancient threshold and up 15 to the Temple of Heaven, home of Ishtar, that no king will ever outdo. Climb the wall of Uruk, walk its length. Survey the foundation, study the brickwork. There—is it not made of oven-baked bricks? 20 Did the Seven Sages not lay its cornerstone? Y7886-Helle.indb 3Y7886-Helle.indb 3 6/25/21 2:28 PM6/25/21 2:28 PM Helle, Sophus. Gilgamesh : A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Yale University Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kean/detail.action?docID=6721718. Created from kean on 2022-04-03 09:07:55. C op yr ig ht © 2 02 1. Y al e U ni ve rs ity P re ss . A ll rig ht s re se rv ed . gilgamesh — 4 — Look: Two thousand acres for the city, two thousand acres for the orchards, two thousand acres for the pits of clay, and one thousand acres for the temple of Ishtar. Seven thousand acres is the size of Uruk. Now look for the cedarwood box, undo its locks of bronze, 25 open the door to its secrets, take up the tablet of lapis lazuli and read aloud: read of all that Gilgamesh went through, read of all his suff ering. He surpassed all kings, that splendid man of muscle, heroic son of Uruk, the goring aurochs.1 30 When he marched at the front, he was the leader of his army, when he marched at the back, the trust of his troops. A mighty riverbank, the shield of his soldiers, and a furious fl ood that crushes walls of stone. The calf of Lugalbanda, superb in strength, 35 nursed by Ninsun, the holy aurochs! Gilgamesh the great, magnifi cent and terrible! He cut passes through the mountains, he dug wells in the hillsides, he traveled toward sunrise, crossing sea aft er sea, 40 he searched in all directions for life without end, he reached, through his toils, the faraway Uta-napishti, he rebuilt the temples that the Flood had destroyed and established the right rituals for vast humankind. Who can compete with him in kingship 45 and claim, like Gilgamesh, “I am the king”? From the day that Gilgamesh was born and named, Y7886-Helle.indb 4Y7886-Helle.indb 4 6/25/21 2:28 PM6/25/21 2:28 PM Helle, Sophus. Gilgamesh : A New Translation of the Ancient Epic, Yale University Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kean/detail.action?docID=6721718. Created from kean on 2022-04-03 09:07:55. C op yr ig ht © 2 02 1. Y al e U ni ve rs ity P re ss . A ll rig ht s re se rv ed . tablet i. who saw the deep — 5 — he was two-thirds god and only one-third human. The mother goddess Belet-ili designed his body, the wise god Ea brought his fi gure to perfection 50 so that he brimmed with strength and shining beauty. He was a giant in height, eighteen feet tall, and his chest was six feet broad. 55 His feet were fi ve feet long, and twice that his leg, and the length of his stride was the same. His beard, too, was fi ve feet long. 58 UGARITIC VERSION His locks curled thick like ears of corn, Ug1 31 his teeth glistened like the rising sun, his hair glowed dark like lapis lazuli. 33 STANDARD BABYLONIAN VERSION He grew up to be superb in charm, 61 as stunning as any mortal can be. But he was stomping through Uruk the Sheepfold with head held high, overbearing like an aurochs. He was unmatched when the weapons were unsheathed, 65 and the swing of his bat kept his team on their toes.2 He darkened the youth of Uruk with despair, Gilgamesh let no son go home to his father. Day and night, he stormed around in fury, King Gilgamesh, leader of the many. 70 This is how he tended to the Sheepfold of Uruk! Gilgamesh let