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Essay 2 ENG102 Length: 6 pages Readings: ‘Getting it Right’ – Sonya Chung (p

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Essay 2

ENG102

Length: 6 pages

Readings:

‘Getting it Right’ – Sonya Chung (p. 779)

‘Those Winter Sundays’ – Robert Hayden (p. 656)

‘Pop Art’ – Brian Doyle (p. 261)

‘My Mother’ – Robert Mezey (p. 191)

‘This be the Verse’ – Philip Larkin (p. 178)

 

Points to consider:

The relationship with parents is fundamental and formative in the life of a child. The complexity of this multi-dimensional relationship sets the tone for who we become as adults. We love our parents, we respect them, we are grateful for the upbringing and life we have had, we take them for granted, we are embarrassed by them, they annoy us, we regret not having appreciated them enough, we feel guilty for not having treated them properly when we had a chance, we resent them, we are angry at the choices they made for us/we were forced to make, we turned out to be who we are because of them, we turned out to be who we are despite them, we realize that they are not as bad as we thought them to be, we realize they are not as great as the idealized memory we have of them, we realize they were human beings too, hence prone to making mistakes and the list goes on. We see the ‘largeness of love’ in ‘the simple gifts, given in earnest’, in Chung’s essay; we hear about the ‘austere and lonely offices of love’ in Hayden’s poem. We see that ‘to father’ is an endlessly demanding role in Doyle’s ‘Pop Art’. We see a mother’s love but her unmistakably overbearing nature (“ … I know what you want/better than you, all that counts/is to make a good living …”) in Mezey’s “My Mother’. Larkin’s poem presents a bleak picture focusing on the resentment and bitterness the relationship breeds from time to time.  Prompt: Based on the above readings that look at the parent-child dynamics from different perspectives, explore this at once basic and layered relationship and come up with your own argument on how this relationship shapes the identity of a person. Use research to strengthen your argument. You are free to also incorporate personal experience/observation in a limited way, but be sure that the majority of your paper focuses on the texts, and any time you mention personal experience, make sure it directly supports your argument.

 

Refer to at least 3 readings from the text and at least 3 sources from Mercer databases to write your essay.

 

All papers must be turned in Blackboard.

Checklist:

• Title (Come up with your own title; try to make it reflect your position in the paper. A title is not the topic given or the statement of thesis. Do not use quotes or italics on your title.)
• A strong arguable thesis.
• Introduction leading naturally into the body of the essay.
• Fully developed paragraphs.
• A conclusion that provides closure.
• MLA incorporated correctly.
• Paraphrase, summary and quotation included
• At least three additional sources incorporated (Books, peer-reviewed journals, news articles from reputed sources/Mercer database).
• In-text citations and Works Cited page
• Avoid sentence fragments, run ons and comma splices.
• Consistency and parallelism.
• Writing is recursive, so write, revise, edit and then turn in.
• Meet me for clarification before turning in your paper.