English 201: Professor Rives -Essay #2Due Date: W 3/30 @ 11:59Description: As a compare/contrast essay, this essay should connect Denis Johnson’s Jesus Son or Sophocles’ Antigone to either O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First” or Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” or any of the other texts we have read this semester. Again, you must plan to submit your best effort even if it is not “perfect.” I expect to see a focused argumentative thesis with supporting points based on textual analysis. Use the text as support, and do not stop short in your analysis. A quotation from the text will not illustrate your thesis on its own. You must tell the reader, through close reading and elaboration upon the quotation, how it illustrates your thesis. It is also better to elaborate in detail upon one example in a paragraph than to bring in too many undeveloped examples. Papers must also use MLA in-text citation style. You should write each paper about at least one NEW text, meaning, you should not write all of your essays on “Paul’s Case,” for example. Requirements:
How do you think Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son or Sophocles’ Antigone relates to our earlier readings—on the basis of religion or “innocence” or anything else? Here are some possible areas of focus: