– Close Reading in Context Essay
Read the story “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35-h/35-h.htm) and “The Communist Manifesto” and describe how the two texts overlap and relate to each other.
-Assume audience read the “Time Machine” but has not read “The Communist Manifesto”
-No need to summarize the “The Machine”
-How Marx influence Wells (the author of the Time Machine)
Introduction: -Thesis: how the two texts overlap and relate each other on a significant issue. (the relation b/w upper class and working-class in “The Communist Manifesto”, the relationship b/w Eloi and Morlocks in the ‘Time Machine’ )
-First Body Paragraph: Analyzing the portrayal of the working class in The Time Machine
Topic Sentence, Evidence(Quote from the text)…
-Second Body Paragraph: Analyzing the portrayal of the working class in “The Communist Manifesto”
Topic Sentence, Evidence…
-Third Body Paragraph: The similarities b/w Time Machine and “The Communist Manifesto” in their portrayals of the development of the working class
Topic Sentence, Evidence…
-Fouth Body Paragraph: Claim on the Time Machine diverges from “The Communist Manifesto” in its portrayal of the possibility of a working-class revolution- in “The Time Machine”, the working class does not abolish the class system, but switches with the upper class.
Topic Sentence, Evidence…
-Conclusion
Questions to consider:
How do the two texts portray that conflict developing over time?
How do the two texts portray the upper class? The working class?
How do the two texts portray the possibility of revolution?
Are the two texts similar in their portrayals of these things? How? Why?
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