Hello I need help with my essay.

Here is the PROMPT: Write an approximately 1,000-word essay in which you demonstrate your

close reading skills with a poem.

ESSAY COMPONENTS: Your essay should be based solely on your own close reading

and interpretation of a poem or short story. No outside sources are allowed. Please use

standard MLA formatting.

Title: Create a clever and/or descriptive title. I love a good title, so please do

NOT title your essay, “Close Reading Essay.”

Epigraph: Begin your essay with an epigraph, which is a full quote of the short

passage (or stanzas) you will focus on.

Introduction and Thesis Statement:

o Your first paragraph should introduce the poem/short story as a whole to

the reader. Try to keep summary to a bare minimum, and assume that

your reader is already familiar with the story/poem.

o Your thesis statement (typically the last sentence of the first paragraph)

makes an interpretive claim about the poem/story that grows out of your

close reading of a short section of the text.

Detailed Close Reading Section: This is the most

important section of your essay. Close reading involves a

fair amount of speculation and associations.

o Be sure to connect each interpretative claim you

make to the specific part of the text that you

analyzed.

o Consider multiple meanings depending on how you

interpret each significant word.

Conclusion:

o Whole – Part – Whole (with new understanding)

preview of the answer..

To live in the borderlands means you

Are neither hispana india negra espanola

ni gabacha, eres mestiza, mulata, half-breed

Caught in the crossfire between camps

While carrying all five races on your back

Not knowing which side to turn to, run from;

Diversity can be termed as a source of pride. On the other hand, it may spell doom to the people if they do not how to use the aspect of diversity to their benefit. America is a country that is made up of several races. In the present times, people try to avoid the racial divides by ignoring whatever race they are involved with. As such, one will find him or herself at the crossroads oblivious of what to do. They fail to know who to turn to or from who to run. This …

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