main characters, instead of described characters?

How are you going to address narrative pov?

What was the HR effective in doing?

For what purpose did the writers, as the leaders of the movement, write these stories?

What is the argument? In other words, what are you saying that someone else might see differently? What is the argument about how these stories say something about the complexity of human nature, and/or human identity?

BETTER! Needs to be one sentence. Then, you're good to go.

What are you going to examine? (characters, setting, pov, plot, climax, dialogue...)

How did the author do it? (metaphors, similes, symbolism, characterization, irony...)

What is the argument about how these stories say something about the complexity of human nature, and/or human identity?

What do we learn about human nature, when we are in the grasp of a racist culture? What are Hurston and Himes saying about human nature through their stories/

Combine this into one sentence, remove the parts that I put a strike through, and you're good!

I'm glad you know what characters you are going to examine and what you mean by narrative point of view. You don't have to put them in your thesis. I just wanted to know. Take those out.

analytic verb

I changed a couple words to make the sentence flow a little more fluidly, and added an analytic verb. What elements of fiction will you be examining?

could the highlighted sentences be condensed...be less wordy? Also, i see mention of characters and setting...how do you see that the author did it?

How did the author do it? Think literary devices...check out the "How" slide

How will you examine this through elements of fiction (characters, dialogue, conflict, setting...) and how did the author convey the theme and key ideas (literary devices such as symbolism, metaphors, characterization, and so on...)

This needs to be one sentence. Also I believe your key idea is what you have in the last sentence. How could you condense that down, to combine with the previous sentences? Also, what elements of fiction are you going to examine? Examples are characters, setting, dialogue, conflict...

You're going to examine characters (who they are) and the internal conflicts, right?

What is that through, how do the author did it?

Individual identity is difficult, in a desire to conform to a group identity? I think this is along the lines of what we talked about...I'm just trying to remember that. Also, I would expect that you are going to examine the "outliers" in the stories, which are characters. What other elements of fiction will you examine. such as setting or dialogue or characterization or symbolism...?

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat,” and Langston Huges’ “Salvation” portray the alienation and separation of the characters through the conflicts, in order to convey the complexity of people’s desires to be deceptive in their desperation to not be alienated, through the experiences that are described in the stories from the Harlem Renaissance.

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” and Jessie Fauset’s “ A Salute to Passing” both portray the ideology of possibilities vs separation during the time period of the Harlem Renaissance by portraying Delia’s marriage and contrasting it to the dialogue of salute to passing which connects the two stories in a multitude of ways.

the definition of home as represented by a divided city and divided self through the characters and point of view (dialogue?) communicates how home can change based on the people and their internal and external conflicts.

Intro background of HR 3-4 sentences, end with thesis

Divided self Delia and wife

Dividing the home through internal and external conflicts

As a result, home would be defined by the people in it. In these stories, home is..." "

Divided city - guys on the porch sided with Sykes by not stopping the conflict.

Divided city - the white community forces a need to conform on the people in the ballroom, creating the society within the ballroom. Characters are not allowed to be how they were born but most conform to what the outer community wants.

Within the conclusion, come up with a final definition of home, based on each author's portrayal of it through the stories.

Jessie Fauset’s “Plum Bun” and Chester Himes’ “Salute to Passing” presents the Harlem Renaissance as the feeding of desire for conformity to stereotyped opportunities in african american communities, using the basis of conforming to social expectations and the eventual internal and external conflicts for the individuals, as explored through atmosphere and characters through contrasting values and cultures.

Intro 3-4 background on the HR. Last sentence is thesis.

Talking about the social expectations as set up in Plum Bun

Talk about the internal and external conflicts for the individuals, as set in that culture, and then the resulting atmosphere.

How he internal and external conflicts create a type of atmsophere

How that atmosphere forces conformity to stereotyped opportunities

Talking about the social expectations as set up in Salute to passing

Talk about the internal and external conflicts for the individuals, as set in that culture, and then the resulting atmosphere.

How he internal and external conflicts create a type of atmsophere

How that atmosphere forces conformity to stereotyped opportunities

Final paragraph talking about how these two stories portray the author's views on opportunities that were supposedly present but actually were not because they were inherently stereotyped.

i - inferential statement (how you see it)

S - summary of what is happening leading up to the quoted evidence

E - quoted evidence

E - explain evidence

Example:

(infer) Delia is impacted by the comments of the outlier characters (the men on the porches) subconsciously by their comments.  

(summary)

In small communities, word gets around and it would have been impossible for her to not know their opinion of the relationship.  

(evidence) "Delia nodded briefly at the men as she drove past, and they start 'Too much knockin will ruin any woman...beating" (Hurston pg#). 

(explain) The community of outliers was willing to comment but not stop the situation, which ultimately impacts her thoughts and makes her decide to do something.

Intro - 3-4 sentences background on the HR, end the intro with thesis

Conflict in Sweat vs Salvation - both have to do with community pressure. In salvation we see it through sensory details and the outlier characters. The impact of the community in Salvation through their sounds of wailing and praying, and the length of time so people are tired, other details from the community as the outliers impacts the main characters subconscious decision to give up.

In Sweat we see it through the sensory details of the snake making her freeze as well as not changing the setting which allowed the events to carry out. This illustrates the impact of subconscious decisions as a result of the community's impact (what the outlier porch men are saying about how bad her situation is, and that impacting her thinking)

Conclusion