ENG 2012 Annotation/Close-Reading Analysis for Module 2

ENG 2012 Annotation/Close-Reading Analysis for Module 2 Jamaica Kincaid Task (Two Things) You must (1) annotate two consecutive pages of Lucy, demonstrating all three types of annotations indicated below and including at least five different notations in total and (2) write a paragraph for a hypothetical essay using the annotated pages. 1. Make connections between the selected passage and other relevant parts of the novel. Pattern recognition is key for literary analysis. A helpful abbreviation to use when annotating is “cf,” which means “compare,” followed by the page # from another significant page in the text you’re comparing. 2. Identify thematic resonances. On the margin, write how your selected passage resonates with central themes that the novel appears to be developing. 3. Ask a . Ask a that you feel you’ll want to explore further in the margin related to something you think is textually significant yet ambiguous, difficult or unclear. For the paragraph you are writing: write at least four sentences, including a topic sentenceand at least two citations from the novel. Model of Paragraph Analysis of First Two Pages of Lucy: Lucy makes her desire to be detached from others implicit in the first pages of the novel [this is a topic sentence]. When she first arrives to her new place, she describes a daydream where she imagines “entering and leaving” important places as a means of seeing her through “a bad feeling [she] did not have a name for” (Kincaid 3) [notice how I cited the text by putting the last name of the author and the page #]. This elusive “bad feeling” is something Lucy must learn to discover as the narrative progresses: it is an aspect of her identity that she refers to as her “anger” and “despair” in the novel’s last chapter (134) [notice that after citing Kincaid twice, I no longer need to add the last name to the citation; however, if I refer to another text and then go back to the novel Lucy I must cite Kincaid’s last name before the page #]. “Entering and leaving” becomes a way of coping with this feeling that’s “a little like sadness but heavier than that” (4-5). But the reality of many people actually entering and leaving these places is described as making these places “ordinary, dirty, worn down” (5). Thissuggests a conflict between Lucy’s fantasies and reality: the inevitable disappointment that awaits Lucy’s detached way of dealing with the people she loves. SCIENCE HEALTH SCIENCE NURSING ENG 2012

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