Reading, Thinking and EVENTUAL Writing

                                    Brainstorming & Discussion over two stories by Flannery O"Connor 

STORY	Setting – often a rural, Southern setting – consider what may be associated with this setting	Theme of Redemption – a character who is in need of discovering his/her own flaws; a character serves as a catalyst	Use of IRONY to reveal characters—everything from names to circumstance to beliefs (include the title)	The protagonists (and antagonists) are grotesque but also comic figures; “extreme and abnormal”
“Good Country People”
“Revelation”

Imagine a writing assignment that asks you to compare and contrast two stories--OR imagine an assignment that requires you to compare and contrast two characters from two different stories OR compare and contrast the same theme in two different story.  PRELIMINARY work has to be done before one can hope to compose an essay.

1.        Determine the stories that will be examined; in this case, two stories by Flannery O’Connor: “Good Country People” and “Revelation”

2.        List the points of comparison--these are listed at the top of the chart—these two stories contain each of the points indicated

3.       Give examples from each story that illustrates the “point” or characteristic; specific examples from each story are absolutely vital; details must be specific; page numbers need to be noted; situations from each story need to be explained.

NOW . . . imagine you were asked to compare two stories from two different authors—Hemingway and O’Brien, as an example. YOU would need to find points of comparison AND contrast.