Unit 7 Outline
Introduction
Hook (introducing your theme, getting the reader to understand your opinion of the theme): 2-3 sentences
Transition (mention titles, authors, plot relevance): 3-4 sentences
Thesis (your argument): 1-2 sentences
Body Paragraphs (please provide 3+ of these!!)
Topic Sentence (a claim, never a fact. The thing you’ll prove in the body of the paragraph)
Major Idea (a way that you’re going to prove the claim. Your opinion of a situation you’ll present)
Minor Idea (quote/paraphrase/textual evidence)
Minor Idea 2 (analysis of the quote. 2-3 sentences. What your quote means and how it proves your topic sentence is valid)
Repeat Major+Minor combo a minimum of 2 times per paragraph
Conclusion
An upside-down version of your intro
-restate thesis
-discuss how the literature prove that your thesis argument is valid
-discuss theme. Hot tip: I always end with a sentence in this pattern: “If _____, then perhaps _____.”
For instance: If the adults in their lives were more involved, perhaps Romeo and Juliet would still be alive.
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Intro
Hook-
Transition-
Thesis-
Body I
Topic sentence-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Clincher-
Body II
Topic sentence-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Clincher-
Body III
Topic sentence-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Major Idea 1-
Minor (quote)-
Minor (analysis)-
Clincher-
(if you need another paragraph, by all means…)
Conclusion
Restate thesis
Mention texts used
Leave the reader thinking.. (Perhaps if _____, then _____)
Intro
Hook- The theme of the essay is to understand the sexuality in two different pieces of literature and understand how the role of gender shaped it. The presence of the hero makes the story interesting and engaging to read. It shows how men and women are stereotyped in different roles.
Transition- The Man who visited the Thunde
irds was written by Paul Radin and is part of Winnebago Tales. The motif of the story is not to be deceived by the evil.
Gilgamesh was authored by Joan London depicting the power of position and does not establish any co
elation between masculinity and sexuality.
Thesis- In Gilgamesh women were treated with respect while males are considered to be powerful. In Thunde
ird the gender is more or less stereotyped.
Body I
Topic sentence- Treatment of different gender in the plays
Major Idea 1- The gender are different personalities and thus they have different actions towards the responses given by the world
Minor (quote)- There were ten
others out of which youngest one used to be at home.
Minor (analysis)- The
others used to go out for earning a living
Major Idea 2- Men are powerful and are representative of leadership.
Minor (quote)- He built wall around Uruk
Minor (analysis)- This shows his strength and the wisdom he holds being a man
Major Idea 3- The gender stereotype highlights the positive characteristic of one gender and out shadows the another one.
Minor (quote)- Men are posed as powerful and strong
Minor (analysis)- They are decision makers and masculine.
Clincher- Men are strong and are born leaders
Body II
Topic sentence- How genders use their wisdom to shape human civilization?
Major Idea 1- The others participants of the society are required to grow as individuals
Minor (quote)- The orphan boy took help of others to escape the fate.
Minor (analysis)- It is important to believe in strengths of other genders
Major Idea 2- One gender poses itself as a leader by doing cruelty whereas society progress in co-existence with peace and love.
Minor (quote)- Gilgamesh want to escape death and he fought till he su
endered at last
Minor (analysis)- It is important to accept love, em
ace it and be generous.
Major Idea 3- Gender stereotypes holds society back at large.
Minor (quote)- The culture has forced people to obey strong and powerful so that they remain pleased
Minor (analysis)- This is not wisdom, It is bowing in front of displeasure of supremacy.
Clincher-Women do not hold important pace while making decisions.
Conclusion
The gender roles in literature define men as gods and relate their actions to the functioning of social organizations. Gilgamesh was strong and want to escape death. In the man who visited thunde
irds the decision of elder
other was binding on younger
others and they have to follow him. They consider women with respect but suppress their wisdom with the men’s masculinity. Perhaps the women were not allowed t be participative in such decisions. If they would have been allowed how the climax of the literature will be is interesting to imagine.
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tablet i
Who saw the deep
There was a man
who saw the deep, the bedrock of the land, 1
who knew the ways and learned all things:
Gilgamesh saw the deep, the bedrock of the land,
he knew the ways and learned all things.
He sought out rulers everywhere 5
and came to grasp all wisdom in the world.
He discovered a secret, revealed a hidden matter,
and
ought home a story from before the Flood.
He came back from far roads, exhausted but at peace,
as he set down all his trials on a slab of stone. 10
He built the wall around Uruk the Sheepfold
and around that holy treasury, the Temple of Heaven.
See that wall—white as wool!
Behold the bulwark that cannot be rivaled.
Step across the ancient threshold and up 15
to the Temple of Heaven, home of Ishtar,
that no king will ever outdo.
Climb the wall of Uruk, walk its length.
Survey the foundation, study the
ickwork.
There—is it not made of oven-baked
icks? 20
Did the Seven Sages not lay its cornerstone?
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Look: Two thousand acres for the city,
two thousand acres for the orchards,
two thousand acres for the pits of clay,
and one thousand acres for the temple of Ishtar.
Seven thousand acres is the size of Uruk.
Now look for the cedarwood box,
undo its locks of
onze, 25
open the door to its secrets,
take up the tablet of lapis lazuli and read aloud:
ead of all that Gilgamesh went through,
ead of all his suff ering.
He surpassed all kings, that splendid man of muscle,
heroic son of Uruk, the goring aurochs.1 30
When he marched at the front, he was the leader of his army,
when he marched at the back, the trust of his troops.
A mighty rive
ank, the shield of his soldiers,
and a furious fl ood that crushes walls of stone.
The calf of Lugalbanda, supe
in strength, 35
nursed by Ninsun, the holy aurochs!
Gilgamesh the great, magnifi cent and te
ible!
He cut passes through the mountains,
he dug wells in the hillsides,
he traveled toward sunrise, crossing sea aft er sea, 40
he searched in all directions for life without end,
he reached, through his toils, the faraway Uta-napishti,
he rebuilt the temples that the Flood had destroyed
and established the right rituals for vast humankind.
Who can compete with him in kingship 45
and claim, like Gilgamesh, “I am the king”?
From the day that Gilgamesh was born and named,
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tablet i. who saw the deep
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he was two-thirds god and only one-third human.
The mother goddess Belet-ili designed his body,
the wise god Ea
ought his fi gure to perfection 50
so that he
immed with strength and shining beauty.
He was a giant in height, eighteen feet tall,
and his chest was six feet
oad. 55
His feet were fi ve feet long, and twice that his leg,
and the length of his stride was the same.
His beard, too, was fi ve feet long. 58
UGARITIC VERSION
His locks curled thick like ears of corn, Ug1 31
his teeth glistened like the rising sun,
his hair glowed dark like lapis lazuli. 33
STANDARD BABYLONIAN VERSION
He grew up to be supe
in charm, 61
as stunning as any mortal can be.
But he was stomping through Uruk the Sheepfold
with head held high, ove
earing like an aurochs.
He was unmatched when the weapons were unsheathed, 65
and the swing of his bat kept his team on their toes.2
He darkened the youth of Uruk with despair,
Gilgamesh let no son go home to his father.
Day and night, he stormed around in fury,
King Gilgamesh, leader of the many. 70
This is how he tended to the Sheepfold of Uruk!
Gilgamesh let