{"id":82,"date":"2019-12-07T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/analytic-thesis\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:14:52","slug":"analytical-thesis-statements","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/analytical-thesis-statements\/","title":{"raw":"Analytical Thesis Statements","rendered":"Analytical Thesis Statements"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Describe strategies for writing analytical thesis statements<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify analytical thesis statements<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"mb-2 flex gap-3 empty:hidden -ml-2\">\r\n<div class=\"items-center justify-start rounded-xl p-1 flex\">\r\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n<div class=\"flex items-center pb-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; orphans: 1; text-align: initial;\">In order to write an analysis, you want to first have a solid understanding of the thing you are analyzing. Remember, when you are analyzing as a writer, you are:<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Breaking down information or artifacts into component parts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Uncovering relationships among those parts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Determining motives, causes, and underlying assumptions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nYou may be asked to analyze a book, an essay, a poem, a movie, or even a song. For example, let's suppose you want to analyze the lyrics to a popular song.\u00a0Pretend that a rapper called Escalade has the biggest hit of the summer with a song titled \u201cMissing You.\u201d You listen to the song and determine that it is about the pain people feel when a loved one dies. You have already done analysis at a surface level and you want to begin writing your analysis. You start with the following thesis statement:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Escalade\u2019s hit song \u201cMissing You\u201d is about grieving after a loved one dies.<\/p>\r\nThere isn\u2019t much depth <span style=\"color: #333333;\">or complexity to<\/span> such a claim because the thesis doesn't give much information. In order to write a better thesis statement, we need to dig deeper into the song. What is the importance of the lyrics? What are they really about? Why is the song about grieving? Why did he present it this way? Why is it a powerful song? Ask questions to lead you to further investigation. Doing so will help you better understand the work, but also help you develop a better thesis statement and stronger analytical essay.\r\n<h2>Formulating an Analytical Thesis Statement<\/h2>\r\nWhen formulating an analytical thesis statement in college, here are some helpful words and phrases to remember:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>What? What is the claim?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>How? How is this claim supported?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>So what? In other words, \"What does this mean, what are the implications, or why is this important?\"<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nTelling readers what the lyrics are might be a useful way to let them see what you are analyzing and\/or to isolate specific parts where you are focusing your analysis. However, you need to move far beyond \u201cwhat.\u201d Instructors at the college level want to see your ability to break down material and demonstrate deep thinking. The claim in the thesis statement above said that Escalade's song was about loss, but what evidence do we have for that, and why does that matter?\r\n\r\nEffective analytical thesis statements require digging deeper and perhaps examining the larger context. Let\u2019s say you do some research and learn that the rapper\u2019s mother died not long ago, and when you examine the lyrics more closely, you see that a few of the lines seem to be specifically about a mother rather than a loved one in general.\r\n\r\nThen you also read a recent interview with Escalade in which he mentions that he's staying away from hardcore rap lyrics on his new album in an effort to be more mainstream and reach more potential fans. Finally, you notice that some of the lyrics in the song focus on not taking full advantage of the time we have with our loved ones.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span>All of these pieces give you material to write a more complex thesis statement, maybe something like this:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the hit song \"Missing You,\" Escalade draws on his experience of losing his mother and raps about the importance of not taking time with family for granted in order to connect with his audience.<\/p>\r\nSuch a thesis statement is focused while still allowing plenty of room for support in the body of your paper. It addresses the questions posed above:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>What? What is the claim?\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The claim is that Escalade connects with a broader audience by rapping about the importance of not taking time with family for granted in his hit song, \"Missing You.\"<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>How? How is this claim supported?\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This claim is supported in the lyrics of the song and through the \"experience of losing his mother.\"<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>So what? In other words, \"What does this mean, what are the implications, or why is this important?\"\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The implications are that we should not take the time we have with people for granted.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nCertainly, there may be many ways for you to address \u201cwhat,\u201d \u201chow,\u201d and \u201cso what,\u201d and you may want to explore other ideas, but the above example is just one way to more fully analyze the material. Note that the example above is not formulaic, but if you need help getting started, you could use this template format to help develop your thesis statement.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Through ________________(how?), we can see that __________________(what?), which is important because ___________________(so what?).[footnote]UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center. <em>\"What, How and So What?\" Approaching the Thesis as a Process.<\/em> https:\/\/wp.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/UWC_handouts_What-How-So-What-Thesis-revised-5-4-15-RZ.pdf[\/footnote]<\/p>\r\nJust remember to think about these questions (what? how? and so what?) as you try to determine why something is what it is or why something means what it means. Asking these questions can help you analyze a song, story, or work of art, and can also help you construct meaningful thesis sentences when you write an analytical paper.\r\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\r\n<h3>Key Takeaways for analytical theses<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Don\u2019t be afraid to let your claim evolve organically<\/strong>. If you find that your thinking and writing don't stick exactly to the thesis statement you have constructed, your options are to scrap the writing and start again to make it fit your claim (which might not always be possible) or to modify your thesis statement. The latter option can be much easier if you are okay with the changes. As with many projects in life, writing doesn\u2019t always go in the direction we plan, and strong analysis may mean thinking about and making changes as you look more closely at your topic. Be flexible.\r\n\r\n<strong>Use analysis to get you to the main claim.<\/strong> You may have heard the simile that analysis is like peeling an onion because you have to go through layers to complete your work. You can start the process of breaking down an idea or an artifact without knowing where it will lead you or without a main claim or idea to guide you. Often, careful assessment of the pieces will bring you to an interesting interpretation of the whole. In their text <em>Writing Analytically<\/em>, authors David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen posit that being analytical doesn\u2019t mean just breaking something down. It also means constructing understandings. Don\u2019t assume you need to have deeper interpretations all figured out as you start your work.\r\n\r\n<strong>When you decide upon the main claim, make sure it is reasoned<\/strong>. In other words, if it is very unlikely anyone else would reach the same interpretation you are making, it might be off base. Not everyone needs to see an idea the same way you do, but a reasonable person should be able to understand, if not agree, with your analysis.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\r\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\r\nLook for analytical thesis statements in the following activity.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/lumenlearning.h5p.com\/content\/1290920118213584118\/embed[\/embed]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2>Using Evidence<\/h2>\r\nAn effective analytical thesis statement (or claim) may sound smart or slick, but it requires evidence to be fully realized. Consider movie trailers and the actual full-length movies they advertise as an analogy. If you see an exciting one-minute movie trailer online and then go see the film only to leave disappointed because all the good parts were in the trailer, you feel cheated, right? You think you were promised something that didn\u2019t deliver in its execution. A paper with a strong thesis statement but lackluster evidence feels the same way to readers.\r\n\r\nSo what does strong analytical evidence look like? Think again about \u201cwhat,\u201d \u201chow,\u201d and \u201cso what.\u201d A claim introduces these interpretations, and evidence lets you show them. Keep in mind that evidence used in writing analytically will build on itself as the piece progresses, much like a good movie builds to an interesting climax.<strong>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\r\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\r\nhttps:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/5eda743b-d102-45f6-9435-563407fa475d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\r\n<h3>Key Takeaways about evidence<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Be selective about evidence.<\/strong> Having a narrow thesis statement will help you be selective with evidence, but even then, you don\u2019t need to include any and every piece of information related to your main claim. Consider the best points to back up your analytic thesis statement and go deeply into them. (Also, remember that you may modify your thesis statement as you think and write, so being selective about what evidence you use in an analysis may actually help you narrow down what was a broad main claim as you work.) Refer back to our movie theme in this section: You have probably seen plenty of films that would have been better with some parts cut out and more attention paid to intriguing but underdeveloped characters and\/or ideas.\r\n\r\n<strong>Be clear and explicit with your evidence.<\/strong> Don\u2019t assume that readers know exactly what you are thinking. Make your points and explain them in detail, providing information and context for readers, where necessary. Remember that analysis is critical examination and interpretation, but you can't just assume that others always share or intuit your line of thinking. Need a movie analogy? Think back on all the times you or someone you know has said something like \u201cI\u2019m not sure what is going on in this movie.\u201d\r\n\r\n<strong>Move past obvious interpretations.<\/strong> Analyzing requires brainpower. Writing analytically is even more difficult. Don\u2019t, however, try to take the easy way out by using obvious evidence (or working from an obvious claim). Many times writers have a couple of great pieces of evidence to support an interesting interpretation, but they feel the need to tack on an obvious idea\u2014often more of an observation than analysis\u2014somewhere in their work. This tendency may stem from the conventions of the five-paragraph essay, which features three points of support. Writing analytically, though, does not mean writing a five-paragraph essay (not much writing in college does). Develop your other evidence further or modify your main idea to allow room for additional strong evidence, but avoid obvious observations as support for your main claim. One last movie comparison? Go take a look at some of the debate on predictable Hollywood scripts. Have you ever watched a movie and felt like you have seen it before? You have, in one way or another. A sharp reader will be about as interested in obvious evidence as he or she will be in seeing a tired script reworked for the thousandth time.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3>Watch It<\/h3>\r\nOne type of analysis you may be asked to write is a literary analysis, in which you examine a piece of text by breaking it down and looking for common literary elements, such as character, symbolism, plot, setting, imagery, and tone.\r\n\r\nThe video below compares writing a literary analysis to analyzing a team's chances of winning a game\u2014just as you would look at various factors like the weather, coaching, players, their record, and their motivation for playing. Similarly, when analyzing a literary text you want to look at all of the literary elements that contribute to the work.\r\n\r\nThe video takes you through the story of Cinderalla as an example, following the simplest possible angle (or thesis statement), that \"Dreams can come true if you don't give up.\" (Note that if you were really asked to analyze Cinderella for a college class, you would want to dig deeper to find a more nuanced and interesting theme, but it works well for this example.) To analyze the story with this theme in mind, you'd want to consider the literary elements such as imagery, characters, dialogue, symbolism, the setting, plot, and tone, and consider how each of these contribute to the message that\u00a0\"Dreams can come true if you don't give up.\"\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pr4BjZkQ5Nc\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nYou can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/HowtoAnalyzeLiterature_transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for \"How to Analyze Literature\" here (opens in new window)<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe strategies for writing analytical thesis statements<\/li>\n<li>Identify analytical thesis statements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-2 flex gap-3 empty:hidden -ml-2\">\n<div class=\"items-center justify-start rounded-xl p-1 flex\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center pb-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; orphans: 1; text-align: initial;\">In order to write an analysis, you want to first have a solid understanding of the thing you are analyzing. Remember, when you are analyzing as a writer, you are:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Breaking down information or artifacts into component parts<\/li>\n<li>Uncovering relationships among those parts<\/li>\n<li>Determining motives, causes, and underlying assumptions<\/li>\n<li>Making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You may be asked to analyze a book, an essay, a poem, a movie, or even a song. For example, let&#8217;s suppose you want to analyze the lyrics to a popular song.\u00a0Pretend that a rapper called Escalade has the biggest hit of the summer with a song titled \u201cMissing You.\u201d You listen to the song and determine that it is about the pain people feel when a loved one dies. You have already done analysis at a surface level and you want to begin writing your analysis. You start with the following thesis statement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Escalade\u2019s hit song \u201cMissing You\u201d is about grieving after a loved one dies.<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t much depth <span style=\"color: #333333;\">or complexity to<\/span> such a claim because the thesis doesn&#8217;t give much information. In order to write a better thesis statement, we need to dig deeper into the song. What is the importance of the lyrics? What are they really about? Why is the song about grieving? Why did he present it this way? Why is it a powerful song? Ask questions to lead you to further investigation. Doing so will help you better understand the work, but also help you develop a better thesis statement and stronger analytical essay.<\/p>\n<h2>Formulating an Analytical Thesis Statement<\/h2>\n<p>When formulating an analytical thesis statement in college, here are some helpful words and phrases to remember:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What? What is the claim?<\/li>\n<li>How? How is this claim supported?<\/li>\n<li>So what? In other words, &#8220;What does this mean, what are the implications, or why is this important?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Telling readers what the lyrics are might be a useful way to let them see what you are analyzing and\/or to isolate specific parts where you are focusing your analysis. However, you need to move far beyond \u201cwhat.\u201d Instructors at the college level want to see your ability to break down material and demonstrate deep thinking. The claim in the thesis statement above said that Escalade&#8217;s song was about loss, but what evidence do we have for that, and why does that matter?<\/p>\n<p>Effective analytical thesis statements require digging deeper and perhaps examining the larger context. Let\u2019s say you do some research and learn that the rapper\u2019s mother died not long ago, and when you examine the lyrics more closely, you see that a few of the lines seem to be specifically about a mother rather than a loved one in general.<\/p>\n<p>Then you also read a recent interview with Escalade in which he mentions that he&#8217;s staying away from hardcore rap lyrics on his new album in an effort to be more mainstream and reach more potential fans. Finally, you notice that some of the lyrics in the song focus on not taking full advantage of the time we have with our loved ones.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span>All of these pieces give you material to write a more complex thesis statement, maybe something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the hit song &#8220;Missing You,&#8221; Escalade draws on his experience of losing his mother and raps about the importance of not taking time with family for granted in order to connect with his audience.<\/p>\n<p>Such a thesis statement is focused while still allowing plenty of room for support in the body of your paper. It addresses the questions posed above:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What? What is the claim?\n<ul>\n<li>The claim is that Escalade connects with a broader audience by rapping about the importance of not taking time with family for granted in his hit song, &#8220;Missing You.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How? How is this claim supported?\n<ul>\n<li>This claim is supported in the lyrics of the song and through the &#8220;experience of losing his mother.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>So what? In other words, &#8220;What does this mean, what are the implications, or why is this important?&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>The implications are that we should not take the time we have with people for granted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Certainly, there may be many ways for you to address \u201cwhat,\u201d \u201chow,\u201d and \u201cso what,\u201d and you may want to explore other ideas, but the above example is just one way to more fully analyze the material. Note that the example above is not formulaic, but if you need help getting started, you could use this template format to help develop your thesis statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Through ________________(how?), we can see that __________________(what?), which is important because ___________________(so what?).<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"UCLA Undergraduate Writing Center. &quot;What, How and So What?&quot; Approaching the Thesis as a Process. https:\/\/wp.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/UWC_handouts_What-How-So-What-Thesis-revised-5-4-15-RZ.pdf\" id=\"return-footnote-82-1\" href=\"#footnote-82-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just remember to think about these questions (what? how? and so what?) as you try to determine why something is what it is or why something means what it means. Asking these questions can help you analyze a song, story, or work of art, and can also help you construct meaningful thesis sentences when you write an analytical paper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3>Key Takeaways for analytical theses<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t be afraid to let your claim evolve organically<\/strong>. If you find that your thinking and writing don&#8217;t stick exactly to the thesis statement you have constructed, your options are to scrap the writing and start again to make it fit your claim (which might not always be possible) or to modify your thesis statement. The latter option can be much easier if you are okay with the changes. As with many projects in life, writing doesn\u2019t always go in the direction we plan, and strong analysis may mean thinking about and making changes as you look more closely at your topic. Be flexible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use analysis to get you to the main claim.<\/strong> You may have heard the simile that analysis is like peeling an onion because you have to go through layers to complete your work. You can start the process of breaking down an idea or an artifact without knowing where it will lead you or without a main claim or idea to guide you. Often, careful assessment of the pieces will bring you to an interesting interpretation of the whole. In their text <em>Writing Analytically<\/em>, authors David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen posit that being analytical doesn\u2019t mean just breaking something down. It also means constructing understandings. Don\u2019t assume you need to have deeper interpretations all figured out as you start your work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you decide upon the main claim, make sure it is reasoned<\/strong>. In other words, if it is very unlikely anyone else would reach the same interpretation you are making, it might be off base. Not everyone needs to see an idea the same way you do, but a reasonable person should be able to understand, if not agree, with your analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\n<p>Look for analytical thesis statements in the following activity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/lumenlearning.h5p.com\/content\/1290920118213584118\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Using Evidence<\/h2>\n<p>An effective analytical thesis statement (or claim) may sound smart or slick, but it requires evidence to be fully realized. Consider movie trailers and the actual full-length movies they advertise as an analogy. If you see an exciting one-minute movie trailer online and then go see the film only to leave disappointed because all the good parts were in the trailer, you feel cheated, right? You think you were promised something that didn\u2019t deliver in its execution. A paper with a strong thesis statement but lackluster evidence feels the same way to readers.<\/p>\n<p>So what does strong analytical evidence look like? Think again about \u201cwhat,\u201d \u201chow,\u201d and \u201cso what.\u201d A claim introduces these interpretations, and evidence lets you show them. Keep in mind that evidence used in writing analytically will build on itself as the piece progresses, much like a good movie builds to an interesting climax.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox tryit\">\n<h3>Try It<\/h3>\n<p>\t<iframe id=\"assessment_practice_5eda743b-d102-45f6-9435-563407fa475d\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/assess.lumenlearning.com\/practice\/5eda743b-d102-45f6-9435-563407fa475d?iframe_resize_id=assessment_practice_id_5eda743b-d102-45f6-9435-563407fa475d\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;width:100%;height:100%;min-height:300px;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3>Key Takeaways about evidence<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Be selective about evidence.<\/strong> Having a narrow thesis statement will help you be selective with evidence, but even then, you don\u2019t need to include any and every piece of information related to your main claim. Consider the best points to back up your analytic thesis statement and go deeply into them. (Also, remember that you may modify your thesis statement as you think and write, so being selective about what evidence you use in an analysis may actually help you narrow down what was a broad main claim as you work.) Refer back to our movie theme in this section: You have probably seen plenty of films that would have been better with some parts cut out and more attention paid to intriguing but underdeveloped characters and\/or ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be clear and explicit with your evidence.<\/strong> Don\u2019t assume that readers know exactly what you are thinking. Make your points and explain them in detail, providing information and context for readers, where necessary. Remember that analysis is critical examination and interpretation, but you can&#8217;t just assume that others always share or intuit your line of thinking. Need a movie analogy? Think back on all the times you or someone you know has said something like \u201cI\u2019m not sure what is going on in this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Move past obvious interpretations.<\/strong> Analyzing requires brainpower. Writing analytically is even more difficult. Don\u2019t, however, try to take the easy way out by using obvious evidence (or working from an obvious claim). Many times writers have a couple of great pieces of evidence to support an interesting interpretation, but they feel the need to tack on an obvious idea\u2014often more of an observation than analysis\u2014somewhere in their work. This tendency may stem from the conventions of the five-paragraph essay, which features three points of support. Writing analytically, though, does not mean writing a five-paragraph essay (not much writing in college does). Develop your other evidence further or modify your main idea to allow room for additional strong evidence, but avoid obvious observations as support for your main claim. One last movie comparison? Go take a look at some of the debate on predictable Hollywood scripts. Have you ever watched a movie and felt like you have seen it before? You have, in one way or another. A sharp reader will be about as interested in obvious evidence as he or she will be in seeing a tired script reworked for the thousandth time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3>Watch It<\/h3>\n<p>One type of analysis you may be asked to write is a literary analysis, in which you examine a piece of text by breaking it down and looking for common literary elements, such as character, symbolism, plot, setting, imagery, and tone.<\/p>\n<p>The video below compares writing a literary analysis to analyzing a team&#8217;s chances of winning a game\u2014just as you would look at various factors like the weather, coaching, players, their record, and their motivation for playing. Similarly, when analyzing a literary text you want to look at all of the literary elements that contribute to the work.<\/p>\n<p>The video takes you through the story of Cinderalla as an example, following the simplest possible angle (or thesis statement), that &#8220;Dreams can come true if you don&#8217;t give up.&#8221; (Note that if you were really asked to analyze Cinderella for a college class, you would want to dig deeper to find a more nuanced and interesting theme, but it works well for this example.) To analyze the story with this theme in mind, you&#8217;d want to consider the literary elements such as imagery, characters, dialogue, symbolism, the setting, plot, and tone, and consider how each of these contribute to the message that\u00a0&#8220;Dreams can come true if you don&#8217;t give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pr4BjZkQ5Nc\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/English+Comp\/Transcripts\/HowtoAnalyzeLiterature_transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript for &#8220;How to Analyze Literature&#8221; here (opens in new window)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-82\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div 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