Practice Analysis

Essay Instructions:

1. Please add the description of Elie Wiesel and his memoir Night under the section Object of Study
2. Please finish the last section Analysis, and try to answer the research question
3. Please read both attached documents and write on the second one
Please do not use any reference sources in Object of Study and Analysis section(in all your works).
actually you may use one or two sources and please cite them as APA format. Sorry

Practice Analysis

Writing About Writing

Spring 2020

Parameters

3-5 pages, double-spaced

Draft due: Monday, February 24^th

Revision due: Monday, March 2^nd

For this project, you don’t need to complete a full-dress paper: it doesn’t need to have a formal introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Instead, you will practice writing the main sections of an analytical essay to get a fuller sense of how those parts work: your research question, conceptual framework, object of study, and analysis. You can use these headings to structure your paper, rather than concerning yourself with creating smooth transitions between sections.

The Research Question

Your research question may emerge either from course readings, from looking at materials about your issue or context, or from your own experience.

In a full essay, you would use your introduction to build up to the question, explain your motivation, and highlight the significance of the research you’ll conduct. For this practice essay, simply state your question and explain your motivation. Why do you think this is an important question to look into?

Framework

Think of this section as a mini-essay that introduces the specific concepts you’ll use in your analysis. Provide an introduction so that readers not only understand the key definitions, but also see why those concepts matter. Include passages from the sources that have introduced the concepts so that we are clear exactly what they mean and why these authors have written about them.

We have worked with four possible frameworks so far: literacy, genres, discourse/discourse communities, and activity systems. Once you have chosen, you can read additional sections in WAW to help you present your framework. You may find you want to focus on one of these concepts or combine them.

Object of Study

Think of this section as a mini-essay that introduces the context you’ll analyze. You will need to describe this context and explain why it’s an appropriate site for answering your research questions. What is interesting or unique or representative or otherwise productive about this site? Make your case.

Analysis

This is where you have the opportunity to turn to your research question. Your goal in this exploratory section is to respond to your research question, drawing on your theoretical framework for key concepts; and on material from your chosen context as evidence. This evidence might include texts, other tools, or interviews. You won’t (and perhaps shouldn’t) finalize your thesis yet, but this section will help you move towards it, discovering some key claims along the way.

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Research Question
For many people, the memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, become to their first introduction to holocaust. Some people feel like their world explodes while reading his book because no one could ever imagine this actually happened in the past. The reason why I choose Night instead of Ann Frank’s diary or other literary works in holocaust period is because I can experience Wiesel’s pain from his vocabulary. I will be focusing on What discourses have shaped Wiesel’s account at Night, how scholars have talked about the effect of Wiesel’s work on a broader audience, and how Wiesel’s work has shaped Holocaust discourse in the US. In this paper, I would like to investigate how Elie Wiesel influences the holocaust discourse in the US.
Framework
Michel Foucault's Conception shows that discourses “provide language with the way of talking about something, a way of representing knowledge about a particular topic at a particular historical moment”. Elie Wiesel applies lots of literary devices like figurative languages in Night to show his desperation in his period in Auschwitz which matches Foucault's concept. For example, he uses metaphor to express how hopeless and despair they were while describing themselves as “withered trees in the heart of the desert” when he first arrives at the camp. There are many examples like this in Night and I would like to talk more about what discourses shaped his acknowledgement of holocaust as a religious Jew. The key terms of discourses include words, values, attitudes, beliefs, and social identities. I will be focusing on how Wiesel uses language to describe his experiences in the camp in Night and how his values and religion (as his social identities) affect his attitude towards holocaust. This framework helps me focus on how Wiesel’s overall identities affect his writing instead of just his works. While rereading Night, I noticed many details and clues that I never figured when I first read it. When my high school English teacher first introduced Elie Wiesel to us, she described him as a survivor of the holocaust and a Nobel laureate. He became a survivor because of his fortune, but he became a Nobel Peace winner because of his way of being in the world. Wiesel taught every human being how to confront atrocities with his own experience, and he taught me how to deal with this tough world. Michel Foucault claims, “all social junctures entail meaning and meaning shapes and influences what we do,” and I want to know what social junctures made Elie Wiesel the person who shapes holocaust in the United States.
Object of Study
Wiesel was born in 1928 and lived in a community that comprised of dominantly Orthodox Jews. The start of the book focuses on the period between 1941 to 1943, when the Jews lived peacefully with minimal restrictions. However, this changed in 1944 after Germany’s invasion of Hungary. The book focuses on the experiences of a 15-year-old boy as the Hol...

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