Literary Analysis Essay on This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITYSUMMERSESSION 2020ENGLISH 1202(S10)Thursday, August 20, 202012:00 p.m. –3:00p.m.Final Exam: Literary Analysis Essay[SAMPLE]on This Accident of Being Lostby Leanne Betasamosake Simpson(15% of final grade)This finalexamination, which is worth 15% of the overall grade for the course,is “open book”insofar  as  students are permitted to  use our  course  materials  (specifically,  the  Headrick textbookand This Accident  of  Being  Lostby  Leanne  Betasamosake  Simpson), a dictionary, the instructor’s  handouts  and  other  materials  posted  to  this  Moodle  site,  and  their  own  notes  from class.Please  write  ord essaythatabidesstrictly  by  the  principles  for  writing  a literary analysis essay set out in Paul Headrick’s A Method for Writing Essays about Literature, particularly as these relate to writing apassage analysis essay.For the purposes of this exam, and despite the fragmentary nature of the work, we will be treating This  Accident  of  Being  Lostas  a  unified  textthat  develops  recurrent  topics  and  themes over  the  course  of  diverse  stories  and  songs. That  is,  we  will treatthe  text  as  a “whole  book”rather than as a “collection.”Students will focus on one story (chosen from among three options) as the “passage”on which their passageanalysis essay will be based.Remember that a passage analysis essay must abide by all of the principles for writing a literary analysis essay set out in MWEL, except as modified in the section of MWELthat relatesspecifically  to  passage  analysis essays  (59-62).Please  pay  close  attention  to  the  section  of MWELentitled “The  Structure  of  Passage  Analysis  Essays”(60).In  particular,  make  sure  that your thesis articulates a themethat isexpressed by the whole book, even though most of your evidence will be drawn from one particular story. In addition, you should not, in the final claim statement, attempt to identify a “resolution of the conflict”of the book as a whole; rather, your final analytical paragraph should begin with a claim about “crucial evidence that establishes the attitude of the text to the issues it represents”(60).The wording of this final claim statement should be close to the wording of the thesis, and the final analytical paragraph  should utilize  the same keywords,  drawn from  the thesis,  that appear in  the  previous analytical paragraphs.However, the  evidence presented inthe  final analytical paragraph should be drawn mainly fromthe rest of the book, not just from the story on which you are focusing.Taking into account theseinstructions, please write a passage analysis essay based on o