A Common Theme In Ha Jin's Short Story

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I’ve realized that I have been writing essays and papers for the majority of my life, and every time, I learn something new. Being able to connect multiple articles or books on a deeper level has made my understandings of the pieces better. However, in my first paper, I only had to connect a common theme within one short story. By doing this, I was able to find multiple examples of how the interaction of characters created a certain type of authority. Making the specific revisions to my paper helped me overall to create a more in depth analysis of the story instead of a summary. Finding a common theme throughout Ha Jin’s short story helped me find the examples that would demonstrate my thesis. I think that I was able to write well developed …show more content…

I find that I can be repetitive with some of my examples because I want to make sure my point clearly comes across. I fixed this throughout my paper and instead, wrote more of an analysis instead of stating my opinion. In the sentence “some people of higher classes interact with people of the lower classes”, I fixed it so it would be clear to the reader that I was talking about how people of different social rankings treat each other. Before I fixed the sentence, it was hard to understand the point of the example since the wording was …show more content…

I think that I was able to give the reader the insight that I was going to talk about inconsistent power figures in my introduction paragraph. I mentioned communism and how their idea of social equality was becoming more well known. Throughout the paper, I think I successfully talked about the unequal relationships between characters that went against the new ideals of communism. I was able to do this in my body paragraphs since I organized my paper in an outline so I could get my thoughts and ideas down on paper. By creating my rough draft outline, I found specific quotes from the short story that portrayed how different characters interacted with each other depending on how much they respected the other person. I found a quote from the story about how the chief treated Mr. Chiu when he was in custody. He blew his smoke into Mr. Chiu’s face, so I interpreted that as the chief having no respect for anyone below him since he did not care for his personal space. I think that I was able to elaborate well on my examples and provide a deeper meaning that connected with my overall thesis and the rest of my

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