Essay Analyzing Short Story by Yukio Mishima. “Swaddling Clothes”
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RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS
1] First Outside Source: You must include at least one quote about the author’s life (this quotation must be
from a source different from the sources used for the other required quotations).
2] Second and Third Outside Sources: You must include at least two quotations, from two different sources that tell us something about the story (these two quotations must be from sources different from the
sources used for the other required quotations).
3] Quotes from the Story: In addition, you must quote from your short story at least 4 times.

** Note: dictionaries and encyclopedias are “reference” sources and cannot, therefore, count as research; in addition, primary texts, like religious texts or other stories, poems, or plays, are original sources, and cannot, therefore, count as research. You may use these sources all you want, but they will not count towards your two outside source minimum. **

LENGTH REQUIREMENTS
1] Outline: The essay must be typed, double-spaced, and must meet the minimum outline. It MUST have a two paragraph introduction.
2) Must include this paragraph structure: two-paragraph introduction, Lesson #1, Lesson #2, Lesson #3, and the Conclusion.
2] Length: The essay must be a minimum of 900 words in 12-Point font (not including Title Page or footnotes).
Expect it, therefore, to be roughly 3 pages long.

FORMAT REQUIREMENTS
1] Essay Appearance: In terms of appearance, your paper must be submitted in the Chicago format, which you can find in the “General Format” section of Chicago Style guide found on the Purdue Owl website.
** Do not include a References/Bibliography page.
2] Footnotes: When quoting from your sources (the story and any outside sources that you use), you must cite each quotation with a Chicago–style Footnote (not Endnote). See the relevant section (probably “Web Sources”) in the Chicago Style guide found on the Purdue Owl web site mentioned above (most of your
sources will be “Web Pages” of one sort or another).
3] Repeat Footnotes: When citing the same source a second time or more, you must use a short version of the full footnote, which is explained in the section titled “Introduction to Notes” found in the Chicago Style guide found at the very beginning of the Purdue Owl web site (i.e. the second, third, etc. time you cite a source).

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
As with Essay Assignment #1, your second essay should be in formal English. In formal situations one should avoid contractions (e.g. use “could not” instead of “couldn’t”) and one should avoid the word “you” unless one must. Also, be careful about referring to two different men (women) as he (she) in the same
sentence.
Verb Tenses: Use Past Tense when discussing what the author did; use Present Tense when discussing what is happening in the story (you may use past tense if discussing something that happened in the character’s
past).
I will be marking these as grammatical mistakes for this essay.
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GENERAL ADVICE
Be sure that your thesis clearly states the Starting and Ending Points of the character’s evolution. Your essay will then set out the stages that evolution goes through and the underlying reasons why these stages are necessary for the character to change in the way he/she does (i.e. the Lessons). Be very careful when presenting your argument. The typical mistake people make in this essay is giving me a mere summary of the various scenes in the story, which is not an argument; focus instead upon the lessons learned by the character and how/why those lessons contribute to the character’s evolution. ———————————————————————————————————————