EN 111 – Honors section PAPER

DEADLINE: March 14th – No extensions allowed. No outside sources allowed.

Deductions: one full letter grade if the writing prompt is submitted late. Another full letter grade if the writing prompt has errors and if it is hard to read. Proofread your assignment!

“F” if I find (close to) identical papers (with similar ideas).“F” for the entire course if you plagiarize.

STRUCTURE OF THE PAPER: 1st paragraph: Thesis statement (original)2nd -5th: Body of the paper (all paragraphs should have a topic sentence)6th: Conclusion (completely different from thesis and/or anything else you have presented in the paper)LENGTH: 4-5 pages, double-spaced!STYLE: MLA (12 Times New Roman; 1’’ top/bottom; left/right)

Topic: “Reclaimed Body”Discuss how women have tried to reclaim their own body after a tough diagnosis followed by a series of invasive treatments. Your primary source is Transitional Object. Your secondary source is chapter 2 from Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces, more exactly pages 60-72. (The local library as a copy of it placed on reserve.)

In your paper, you need to demonstrate how these women (Mia, Vivian, and Audre) have worked on trying to reclaim their most valuable possession, their body. Look out for great quotes from both the primary and secondary sources to use as back up for your own arguments. Do you think these women have a lot in common or does their approach to reclaiming their bodies differ significantly? Furthermore, what may be the message underneath these women’s powerful struggle? How would you characterize their personality?

Choose 4-5 short quotes maximum (2 from the play and 2 from the assigned chapter). The main point that you would like to prove is that, unlike an object that can be replaced, what do we do when we have lost our health? How do plays like Transitional Object, Wit, on the one hand, and a memoir, The Cancer Journals, on the other hand, can help us navigate through this vast domain of the embodiment? How can literature mediate our views on embodiment especially when it breaks, that is, when we become patients?