READ THE UPLOADED FILES WHICH ARE 3 STORIES AND FIND THE THEME WHICH IS GOING TO BE IDENTITY.
What Is a Thematic Analysis?
A thematic analysis takes a theme that is important in the book or story, and explores all the different ways that theme is presented in order to arrive at a thesis about what the author wants to say about that theme overall.
For instance, if my theme is LOYALTY, I would want to ask questions like the following as I brainstormed ideas for my paper:
Is the plot about loyalty?
Are there any features of the narration that lead you to think about loyalty in a particular way?
Which characters are loyal?
Which characters are disloyal?
Do any of the characters change, becoming more or less loyal? If so, what motivates those changes?
To what or whom is each character loyal?
Do the characters that are loyal to people differ from the characters that are loyal to ideals or places? How?
Are there any symbols or settings that are associated with loyalty in the book?
Does the author seem to suggest loyalty is always good, always bad, or in between? If it’s in between, then what patterns can I see in how the author seems to value loyalty?
Then, I would flip through the book or story and find all the quotes I underlined that relate to the theme of loyalty.
As you brainstorm these ideas and find these quotes, you will be ultimately answering the question “What does the author suggest about loyalty through the story?” The answer to that question will be your thesis. This involves a little bit of a step back from the literature to think about it as a whole.
How to Structure the Paper
Great, so you completed the above brainstorming, but that’s not a paper outline. You need to figure out what how to turn those rough ideas about the theme into specific claims that will serve as your thesis and topic sentences. You should have several topic sentences, and ideally they should build on one another logically to prove your thesis. You do not have to structure the paper in the order that things happened in the book; in fact, it’s usually better not to do that because then it reads more like a plot summary. Here’s a rough outline of how to structure your paper:
Introductory paragraph that gives the book title, story title, author, some context, and your thesis.
Body paragraph that summarizes the plot of each story
Paragraph that makes a claim about the theme and gives quotes from various stories to support that claim
Paragraph that makes a claim about the theme and gives quotes from various stories to support that claim, building on the previous paragraph
Paragraph that makes a claim about the theme and gives quotes from various stories to support that claim, building on the previous paragraph
Paragraph that makes a claim about the theme and gives quotes from various stories to support that claim, building on the previous paragraph[repeat as needed until you are finished]
Conclusion paragraph