Wait for Me, Daddy, by Claude P. Dettloff (1940) Literature Essay

In this assignment, you will be writing an open-formed essay exposing two different realities based on a photograph of a historical event. One exposure will be written as a (fictional) personal experience in the first-person point-of-view from a biased perspective of the historical event; the second exposure will be quotations that you find in your research of the historical event that oppose your “personal” position of it. The first step of the assignment is to find a photograph of historical significance with conflicting positions: any terrorist act, any war, any important military battle, any anti-war movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Holocaust, an exceptional individual achievement—any historical event that has contending perspectives.First Exposure: Having found a photograph that visually documents an important moment in history, it is your job to become one of the characters in the picture, narrating the experience as you imagine it could have possibly occurred, and exposing the event in the way that you want the audience to see it. History is often conveyed as “his-story,” so I want you to show your story of the event, the way that you want the reader to understand it based on the concrete details and actions that took place. It behooves you to research the historical event before you start writing in order learn a bit about the event and to focus on what you want to write about. Very important—this not a historiography. The future relevancy of the event is not necessarily what is on your mind. The “personal experience” should not be laden with historical facts with the intent of giving a history lesson. As a narrator, you are living the historical event and you want the reader to see it through a particular lens. Be specific and detailed in your narration; embody the reader in the experience. Show the details that are creating your fears, your hopes, and expectations. Detail the obstacles which were overcome, the significance of the people around you, and so forth. Again, imagine yourself experiencing life through the eyes of someone who was there. The more detailed you are in your narration, the more believable your experience will be. The goal is to show the reader how the stance taken in the second exposure is in your opinion the wrong one. Second Exposure: You will need to research the historical photograph you are writing about. If you are doing your paper, for example, on a specific Civil Rights protest—a sit-in for example—you would do your research on those who were against equal rights for blacks and bring in quotations that showed their controversial perspective. The point is, you need to find a purpose that conflicts with the personal narrative that you are writing. It is better to focus your research on one aspect rather than a lot of different aspects. This essay is not meant to make you an expert of this historical event, but to prepare you to do research and to demonstrate that reality it wrought with opposing systems of valuesFormat and Content: This essay will be three to five pages long, double spaced, have 12pt font size, and comply with MLA format. Each page needs at least one quotation and no more than two. The quotations need to be at least four full lines long and no more than six. When you introduce the “second exposure,” you will not introduce or explain the quotations; just put them in so that there is an abrupt shift from the personal experience to the quoted material. When you block the quotation, you do not include quotation marks; it is implied that the information is coming from an outside source. You keep the quotation double spaced, and you set the left side margin to two inches (one inch for the defaulted margin and one additional inch). You will need at least three outside sources (an internet source in not acceptable—a library database is not considered an internet source).Thesis Statement: Your paper needs a purpose. The reader should finish the essay believing there was a specific reason you wrote it. Returning to the subject of a Civil Rights protest, you might share the dangers of the experience and the anger and hateful discriminations that were thrust upon you. There does not need to be a specific thesis. An implied one will suffice. An example of your purpose could be, Although the sit-ins put my life in
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