Ms. Gokturk DUE: ________________

Trends in Literature

Entropy Essay Assignment

YOUR TASK: Write an essay that explores an aspect of our entropy unit! Write about one, two, or all three works in your essay: The Time Machine (novel), “The Heat Death of the Universe” (short story), and/or “The Hollow Men” (poem). Make use of a wide variety of specific text based evidence to support your complex, fresh, and interesting position. Please submit your final draft to turnitin.com by the due date.

Prompts for one or more works:

1. I want to prove that the text/s is/are social commentary/ies. Each illustrates a major social problem.
2. I want to prove how is the theme of entropy used to develop a bigger idea.
3. I want to use a passage from one work to use as a critical lens to analyze the text/s.
4. I want to use my first line/s from my Found Time Machine poem to serve as a critical lens to analyze the work/s.
5. I want to use my Time Machine Zones Review box as a position statement to analyze the work/s.
6. I want to prove _______.

Prompts for Zoline only:

7. I want to prove that the story is a fugue.
8. I want to prove that this is a feminist text.
9. I want to prove that art is used to make social commentary.
10. I want to prove that the theme of opposing forces/dualities develops _______.
11. I want to prove that that the story is a Dada work in order to reveal ________.
12. I want to prove that the problem introduced in paragraph one is
13. I want to prove that the theme of reproduction/mass production/replication/cancer/absorption is social commentary.
14. I want to prove how the micro is the macro and is therefore social commentary.
15. I want to prove that the allusion to transparent eyeball (Emerson’s “Self Reliance”) shows a sick and dying world.
16. I want to prove that color choice is important to show _____.
17. I want to prove ______.