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Step 1. Write the rough draft of your literary argument. Revise and…
Step 1. Write the rough draft of your literary argument. Revise and edit your draft.
Step 2. Paste the completed final draft of your literary argument in the space below. Remember to use proper throughout your document and include your Works Cited page at the end.
Literary Argument Final Draft
Reflection Questions My Response
1. Think about your revision self-evaluation. What was your score? How did the practice of evaluating your own writing strengthen your final draft?
2. Consider the first and final drafts of your essay. What areas of strength and weakness did you notice in your writing?
3. What is something content- or writing-related you learned throughout the literary argument writing process?
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Prompt #3:
“Seven Floors”
Many scholars feel that Buzzati wrote “Seven Floors” as an allegory for the progression of life and the acceptance of aging. Choose three literary elements in this short story that you find to be the most effective in achieving this purpose and provide textual evidence to defend your choices.
My Prompt
Which prompt did you select for this assessment (1, 2, or 3)?
3: “Seven Floors”
My Claim
Dino Buzzati’s “Seven Floors” employs literary elements such as allegory, metaphor, and symbolism to depict the gradual progression of life toward death.
Reason #1
What is the first reason for your claim?
The entire short story is an allegory in which the hospital represents the entire journey of life. The top floor represents youth and a carefree period. Aging occurs as you progress downwards, and the ground floor represents death itself. As he approaches the bottom floor, Giuseppe Corte becomes increasingly nervous. This is demonstrated by the following textual quotation:
Provide one piece of evidence from your text that supports this reason:
“In this way, he learned about the hospital’s unique practice of assigning its patients to different floors in accordance with the gravity of their illness. On the seventh floor, the top floor, only the very mildest cases were treated. Those whose forms of the illness weren’t grave, but who certainly couldn’t be neglected, were assigned to the sixth floor. More serious infections were treated on the fifth floor, and so on and so forth. Gravely ill patients were housed on the second floor; and on the first floor, those for whom all hope had been abandoned.”
Reason #2
What is the second reason for your claim?
Several metaphors appear throughout the story to heighten the anxiety of approaching death. For example the floor itself is called as a “barrier” between Corte and “normal people”.
Provide one piece of evidence from your text that supports this reason:
“But, he was tormented by the thought that two barriers had now arisen between him and the world of normal people.”
Reason #3
What is the third reason for your claim?
The symbols in the story are only obvious to us because they represent something deeper in life’s progression. The diminished view outside the window once one reaches the third floor represents a loss of touch with life and reality. Corte’s eczema, which forces him to transfer to the fourth floor, is yet another manifestation of a disease that refuses to accept the aging process. A rapidly spreading disbelief.
Provide one piece of evidence from your text that supports this reason:
“It was only from the third floor down was the view cut off by the belt of trees.”
