Thursday, April 28, 2011

PROSE PASSAGE- THEMATIC FOCUS

When looking at a Prose Passage to figure out the thematic focus you need to look for the main idea or central idea.

The term “Thematic” refers to the Theme and how the theme and main idea come together to answer the prose passage question.

Themes like Conventions, Manners and Oppression, manipulation, could be themes that occur in a passage which could be helpful in solving the Prose Passage Essay Question

Example: In a well organized essay, discuss how alice walker conveys the meaning of The Flowers and how she prepares the reader for the ending of this short story.

For this Prose Passage Essay Question you could use the theme of loss of innocence to show her meaning and how she prepares the reader for the ending of this story

Myops loss of innocence is a theme in the passage which can help you solve the prose passage question.

You can say the author conveys the meaning of the flowers by showing how myop loses her innocence  and then gains maturity and how she prepares the reader for the ending by showing how myop slowly loses innocence and shifts from the child to a mature young lady. knowing that she was able to balance good and evil and to open her eyes to reality.

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