OVERVIEW: You will create a Tumblr blog based upon a short story in your textbook and craft an accompanying analytical essay explaining your blog posts and analyzing the story/character(s). The essay will be turned in during class and the link to your Tumblr will be emailed to me on the same day.

Social Platform: Tumblr

PART 1: Tumblr: These are possible ideas. Feel free to use your creativity, so long as it displays careful, critical thought. For example, you might use text and multimedia to imagine how your character(s) might display him or herself on the internet. Use the story to determine their desires, fears, ambitions, preferences, etc.

Another approach might be to use text and multimedia to explore the historical or social context of the story–examining the connection between the fictional world and the real world of the characters. The best projects come from the combination of close readings and imagination!

PART TWO: Essay: page min. length: 2 full pages, typed, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman, MLA style. Your written essay will explain your Tumblr in detail, and provide an analysis your central character. This will demonstrate your careful understanding of the character. In the essay component, but sure to use quotations from the short story to support your analysis.

TIPS: As you read through the story, you might ask yourself these questions about the character you select: What kind of a person is he/she? Sympathetic? Bitter? Assertive? Confident? Compassionate? Which actions throughout the story express the most about her/him? What motivates this character? Does he/she undergo a dynamic change (a fundamental change in perspective) during the course of the short story? Or does she/he remain a static character?