Outline for Prompt 1

I dont know about anyone else, but this outline was a little hard. I'm still formulating a bunch of ideas for the first essay prompt .. It's going to be quite the paper. I decided to not do my outline in a formal manner though because when I write, my ideas don't just fall in line, so I don't think my ideas for my outline will do that either.

Keeping that in mind, here is my outline for the first essay prompt.

Claim: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" describe in great detail two comparably unjust traditions specifically through imagery and language.

Structure:

1. Intro

2. First body paragraph - Speaking to "The Lottery"

3. Second body paragraph - speaking to "In the Penal Colony"

4. Third body paragraph comparing the two with the literary terms they use in each story and also comparing the traditions.

4. Conclusion

Topic Sentences:

2. "The Lottery" is a story of a small Puritan-like town with a tradition of stoning a member of the close knit community.

3. "In the Penal Colony" is also a story of a gruesome tradition where commandents are pierced into the skin of the condemned by the use of a machine.

4. Both stories involve traditions that have been carried on for generations without a thought of it being wrong.

Warrants:

-Both stories go into great detail the thoughts behind both traditions. Kafka goes into great detail about the machine that is to be used on the condemned man and Jackson goes into detail about the little boys piling up the stones in the play yard and the description, in depth, of the box the names are pulled from.

-Kafka and Jackson both have one character that either speaks out about the tradition in speech or in thought. The explorer thinks to himself about how wrong the tradition is just like Tess speaks out to the community about their tradition right before she is stoned.

-Both traditions involve the death of someone. Specifically, neither parties in either of the stories knew why they were being sentenced. Tess was drawn randomly from the box and the condemned man would only find out his sentence once it was pierced in his skin.

-Both stories were published and recieved negative feedback for being outrageous and too .... to be published. (I can't think of the word that fits where the .... is.)

-Flashbacks are sort of used in each story. The tradition of stoning is brought up and spoken for when Tess says something about it and the machine tradition is spoken about in a flashback manner by the officer.

My outline will continue to grow as my paper is written. These are my starting points and the core of my paper. The events that were described in the story will be noted and translated to fit the "imagery" and "language" categories that the prompt asks for.

-LD