English 103: A close reading literary analysis essay on Kerri Sakamoto's Floating City Examine, and discuss meaningfully, what is really going on by paying attention to the emotional tone* of your selected passages in which two characters are interacting, and/or one is thinking about the other. If you can relate your analysed selections to the big picture of the novel, all the better. Choose any two characters that have a connection to each other.

As with other assignments, it is about your intellectual interactions with the literary text; something we have focused our attention on this semester.

Reminders I: Format & structure: MLA. Must have a one-sentence introduction, and a concise thesis that shows what you are arguing for in response to the above topic. After that each paragraph should begin with your topic sentence which is the main idea you are developing in that paragraph based on your considered analysis of your selected textual evidence from the novel.

Reminders II: Adhere to the College's no-cheating, no-plagiarism, no ghost-writing policy. Distinguish clearly between what is yours and what is not. Anything that is not yours must be fully and properly cited. Include in-text page references to the novel. MLA style.

You may judiciously use, with proper citation, any of the handouts I have given to you previously to further augment your essay.

(* Emotional tone: as I have pointed out much earlier in the semester is part of a writer's use of setting. This sort of setting could include: neutrality, internal or external conflict or both, clashing agendas, divergent mindsets, distrust, barmonised relating, and so on).