Write an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher) (4-5 pages). You have already read the short story for your discussion board and journal activities, but you should re-read it more closely and attentively in order to formulate an insightful thesis for your analysis.

In Journal 5, you compressed into a thesis an idea you have discerned in “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Do you still think that your idea is one that can be argued succinctly to illustrate its centrality to one’s understanding of this short story? Note that a thesis for an argument cannot be a trite comment such as, “this story is very interesting.” It should be a claim of discernible depth that requires explanation and supporting examples from the short story itself.

Thesis

In formulating your thesis for this analysis, you must make sure that it embodies an analytic principle. An effective analysis “provides a valuable point of view, a way of seeing, a way of interpreting some phenomenon, person, event, policy, or pattern of behavior that otherwise may appear random or unexplainable” (174). It is that randomness or unexplainable bent that loads the thesis with controversy and great expectation.

Use of Secondary Sources

Your analysis should be based solely on “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which is the primary text for this assignment. However, you should find at least two secondary sources (scholarly articles or textbooks) that support your claim (directly or indirectly). The paper is about your own thesis (claim) that you have asserted. Secondary sources only reinforce your own claim.

Format

Double-space, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman, 12 point font.

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