The Jungle Literary Research paper

The primary purpose of this assignment is to allow you to read and analyze a novel/novella length work of literature, formulate your own creative and insightful opinions on the work, state said opinions in a correctly formatted MLA research paper, and support aforementioned opinions with properly documented secondary academic sources.

The completion of this assignment will also demonstrate your ability to correctly utilize GALILEO to research and document academic sources as well as your ability to successfully utilize MLA format.

TASK

Requirements:

6 pages minimum excluding Works Cited page
MLA Format (please use attached template)
1 primary source (the novella)
5 secondary sources (journal article, criticism, essay, etc.) from GALILEO
3 Structural Elements of the Novel must be mentioned (Structural Elements and Literary Terms Folder)
3 Figurative/Connotative Devices must be mentioned (Structural Elements and Literary Terms Folder)

You will write a Literary Research Paper in MLA Format over The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

The paper should delve substantially into a thesis which is additionally supported by multiple literary devices such as plot, theme, style, form, symbol(s), characters/archetypes, etc.

Theses: Compare Capitalism vs Socialism as depicted in the work

You must use a minimum of one quote EACH from five (5) secondary sources (full text articles from GAILEO) and one (1) primary source (the primary source for this paper is the novel The Jungle).

All quotes should be properly cited using in-text citations along with a correctly formatted Works Cited page.

Secondary sources MUST come from full text articles found in GALILEO. Use of secondary sources such as Wikipedia, blog posts, message boards, and web pages are inappropriate for this level of research and will not be considered a secondary source.

Please submit the paper as a Microsoft Word attachment using the provided template.