1. Robinson Crusoe review
Description there seems to be a confusion about what is required for the close reading
analysis. Show your very detailed analysis of the specific part of the text; this might be very
different from the research paper. For example, one person might write: the quote “Friday’s
very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father” exemplifies that Crusoe
wants to control Friday. (the end. then goes over to another point)—> pay more attention to
the language and technique. Expand on the interpretation of the quote a lot more. For
example, you can instead say: Crusoe uses a simile introduced by ‘like’ to compare their
relationship to the one between a father and a child. Crusoe uses this simile of the parent-
child relationship to cover up the fact that they are essentially in the master/slave
relationship. (if you go on like this, you can make two-three sentences for every direct
quotation) The reason why we need more close analysis is because we can provide more
concrete evidence, and sometimes the direct quote gives a chance to come up with a
brilliant observation, which was not obvious at first reading. So this close reading analysis is
a kind of exercise, warming up for the future longer paper.#Robinson #Crusoe #review