The language classes are becoming more and more popular in all parts of the world. Knowing more than one language is a new trend that shows that humanity wants to communicate with each other easier than they used to before. All of this brings up a lot of new ways to learn the language. However, one thing always stays here in all types of learning. That is the literature. While learning any language you will get an assignment to read a piece of literature or a whole book. That is something that is difficult to do for some, but when they find out about the following task, they are shocked even more. In most of the cases, as soon as you finish reading the book, you would get a task to write a literary essay. That is not an easy thing to do. Moreover, in many cases, people are not reading the actual literature piece, which makes the task even harder for them. To make the things even worse, if you go online, you will probably not find any useful information on how to write such an essay. Therefore, in this article we are going to look at some of the pieces of the literary essay.
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Thesis statement
You might have heard this before, but just like in most of the texts, the thesis statement is the most important part of the literary essay. You might feel like the main part is something that would decide your grade the most. The answer is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Sure, the main part brings up all of the information and the analysis that you have gathered from the book. However, it has to answer the thesis statement and question, which makes it hard to get a nice main part without the thesis. It simply dictates what you will have to do in the next parts of the text. Therefore, make sure that you spend as much time as you can to get this part right. To help yourself out try to read the full version of the book and after that go online and look for some of the main points shown in the piece of literature. That will help you a lot even if you are usually bad at the literary essays.
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The main body
People consider this part to be the most important among all of the parts of a literary essay. There are many reasons to think so. It brings up all of the actual information. Even though we have determined that the thesis is more important, there is still a lot of work to do in this part of writing. To start off, you have to try to answer the questions that you set in the previous paragraphs. Give some examples why you think the thesis statement is right or wrong. Try to give a piece of analysis to every example. Also, try to get some comparison between the situations in the book and the situations from your own life and from the situation from the other literature pieces. Try not to get too deep into one of the examples, as it might be completely useless at that point. Just describe every part of the analysis in the best way without getting so deep that you have to spend the rest of the text to get out to the actual text writing. Never be scared to add something from the book to the text. That will only show that you are good at this writing. Something like an interesting quote would do just fine in this case. The other things you can add are the dialogues or monologues from the piece of literature. Some short situations would add some interest from the reader too.
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The conclusion
Just like in all types of texts, do not forget about the last paragraph. That is something that you have to pay some attention too, as there are many wrong opinions on how to do it. For example, people think that all of the analysis goes into this part of the literary essay. However, that is wrong though, as you already know that it goes into the middle of the essay. In this part of the text, it would be the best to get some analysis of your own article and the past thoughts about the text. For example, you can say that while writing the text your feelings about one of the main heroes have changed from the bad to loving the character. Some people love to add their thoughts about the text they have read. You can say what impressed you the most and what part of the text was so boring that you fell asleep. All of this information might seem useless to you, but the professors would be able to determine how well you know the piece of literature given to you.
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Add the postscript
This is something that needs to be added to the last part, which is the conclusion. However, we are going to look at it as at a separate part of the text, because it brings up totally different problems than the conclusion. In this part, you will have to remember all of the stuff you have read in the past time. All of this will allow you to get a nice comparison to your favorite books. In the end, you can always add a text, which tells what books have inspired you to pick this one, and what books you are going to read after you are finished with the current one.