Monday, October 8, 2012
The Difference
Finding the main difference between a literary analyisis and a book report is the easiest thing I have been asked to do in this class. The point of a book report is making a summary of a book and explaining the plot. The difference between a literary analysis and a book report is that a literary analysis has nothing to do with summarizing a book at all! It is "an argument about meaning". The second part of the prompt was "which one do you prefer?" I would prefer a literary analysis because writing about how the author uses suspense is more interesting than writing about a whole book. I know that writing a literary analysis is more than writing about suspense. It is about really understanding a passage and being able to write about it. I talk about suspense because, judging by the material I have read so far, suspense is one important subject we will be writing a literary analysis about in the near future. I look forward to writing.
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I agree. I would rather write a literary analysis essay over a book report because it is more in depth and more interesting. If you read a book report before reading the story, then you already know the jist of it. On the other hand, if you read the book report after reading the book, then you are pretty much reading a summary of what you have just read.
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