“Hills like white elephants”: the relationship between the couple is doomed and will never give either satisfaction.
The Research Essay
A main focus of this course is the Research Essay. The Research Essay should focus on one or more poems, short stories, plays, or other literary works. You may use one (or even both) of your 3-page essays as the basis of your Research Essay by, essentially, adding research, primarily into what literary critics and scholars have had to say about the work(s) you have chosen. The Research Essay must meet three important criteria:
1) the essay must be argumentative, centered on the work(s) you have chosen;
2) the essay must be overwhelmingly original: that is, it mainly reflects your ideas, analysis, thoughts, feelings, or understanding of the literary work(s) being written about;
3) the essay must involve research to back up or inform your ideas, analysis, etc., properly cited; and should incorporate research from a minimum of five sources, three of which should be come from the BCC library’s databases.
Research essays must be submitted on the due date. Late essays may not be accepted. The Research Essay counts 40% of your grade.
The Research Essay may be an expansion of one of your earlier 3-page papers. You wrote those papers without doing research; now, go and do the research. This means primarily researching what literary critics and scholars have to say about the work(s) you have chosen, but it may be into other areas, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or history.
This assignment a research “essay” in order to emphasize that the paper should be your thoughts, your ideas, your understanding of the work(s) you are writing about. . . backed up and supported by some research. It’s not about going to the authorities and finding out what they say and reproducing their analysis in your paper.
It’s about you interpreting the work, and using them to help you. Imagine you are giving a talk to an audience of people about the works you have chosen, and behind you sits a panel of experts.
From time to time in your talk, you turn to one of these experts and say, “Isn’t that so, Doctor?” And Learned Herr Doctor So-and-So from Such-and-Such University rises and says, “Ja, dat’s exactly right, vat she said!”
1) the essay must be argumentative, centered on the work(s) you have chosen;
2) the essay must be overwhelmingly original: that is, it mainly reflects your ideas, analysis, thoughts, feelings, or understanding of the literary work(s) being written about;
3) the essay must involve research to back up or inform your ideas, analysis, etc., properly cited; and should incorporate research from a minimum of five sources, three of which should be come from the BCC library’s databases.
SOURCE:
this is another source with a chapter with an analysis on “hills”:
Reading Hemingway’s Men Without Women : Glossary and Commentary by Joseph M. Flora
