You will write a 500-word theme addressing one of the prompts listed below.
1. Steinbeck & Contentment: Throughout Cannery Row, Steinbeck comments about the
complexity of defining the meaning of success and contentment. Write a theme that
explores how Steinbeck experiments with a more supple and multidimensional view of success
and happiness. How is a successful life redefined by the members of Steinbecks Cannery Row
community? Which characters in the novel seem to be the most contented with their lives?
Why? Your theme should make brief-but-direct comparisons to how two other American
authors from our reading list have explored this topic. (Key authors to consider might include
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Frost, and Kesey.)
Make sure that you focus your theme specifically on the question. Do not include information which
does not answer the question. Please do not write recklessly; you will have plenty of time to complete
your theme.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE THEME:
1. On the top line of a new page in your blue book, write the title of your essay. Try to craft a
title that makes a bold insight and captures the interest of your reader.
2. Skip two lines and write a brief outline. (There is no need to give a purpose, thesis, or plan.)
3. Skip two more lines and begin your theme.
Plan your paragraphs and major points carefully. Your task is to show me how much you have learned
about organizing an essay.
Good essays will contain the following elements:
1. A very brief introduction that leads to a purposeful, argumentative thesis statement.
2. Well-focused topic sentences introducing paragraphs that explore the thesis and move forward
in a meaningful order.
3. Plenty of relevant illustrations to substantiate your opinions.
4. Skillful transitions: furthermore; moreover; in addition; in contrast; likewise; on the other
hand; however; thus; therefore.
5. Present tense for actions and speeches within literary works.
6. Specific, concrete language.
7. Brilliant insight into the characters and ideas in the literary work.
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