| OUTSIDE READING BOOK ESSAY RESPONSE |
| This essay will be 3 pages in length. It needs to be typed in MLA format, times new roman, font size 12 only. Make sure that all revision is done well and your essay is spell checked as well. 130 Points Prompt # 1 Analyze the setting, or various settings in the story you are reading or have read and discuss why the author chose to use that locale / those locales. Further, find stories with similar settings and compare/contrast storylines. Are they the same genre? Do they have the same mood, tone, action level? How can or does a locale serve different moods, tones, actions? If you had to choose the setting for the story, what/where would it be? Describe. Finally, discuss how much the setting plays into the action of a story. How important is it as a component? Be sure to include quotes from your book and other sources to support your ideas. Prompt # 2 Put yourself into the book you are reading. What role would you have? With whom would you get along the best? The worst? Explain. Would you be a supporting role player, leading role player, or a periphery character with little or no direct involvement? Why? Would you have a hard time connecting with the characters in your story? How do you differ? If your story takes place in a different time period, describe the time period and the challenges you would have adapting to it. What are the similarities it shares with your current world? What are the key differences? What emotions would you expect to experience in your book? How would you react to them? Would you like to experience some of the things the characters in your book are? Prompt # 3 Analyze the growth and maturity of the main character in your story. What have they learned and how has it affected their place in the story? What, if any, kind of mistakes have they made that they have grown from and used for future reference? Are they better or worse off from when the story began? How? What types of activities have they engaged in? Finally, what do you foresee happening with this character and what, if anything, would you do or have done differently? Prompt # 4 Describe the various settings in your story and how they impact the lives and activities of the characters involved. How does the author use the setting to impact or affect the story and what is happening. Please provide exacting details of the setting/settings and the role itor they play in the story. Why do you think the setting is important for an author? What does it help to establish? Would a different setting change the story dramatically? How so? Please describe a different setting that could be in place for your story and how it would impact the lives of main characters and story line. |