“Destitute Pea Pickers in California” by Dorothea Lange,Approaching a City” by Edward Hopper;http://goo.gl/SyHuKZ

“Destitute Pea Pickers in California” by Dorothea Lange,Approaching a City” by Edward Hopper;http://goo.gl/SyHuKZ Essay 3: Comparing and Contrasting Two Image s Goals: This essay offers practice in looking (reading) closely and moving from describing observations of specific details into stating larger ideas which can be expressed in a thesis statement. You might think of this as expanding from “local” ideas (specific observations) to one “global” idea (a more comprehensive claim and thesis). In addition, this essay offers practice using the comparison and contrast method of organization, a method with many useful applications. Reading: Please read Chapter 14 on "Responding to Visual Representations" as well as Chapter 7 on "Comparing and Contrasting" in The Bedford Guide for College Writers . Images: You will be writing about what you think is the significance of specific similarities and/ or differences you observe when studying two images together. For your paper topic, please choose ONE SET of two images from the three sets linked below . Set 1: “Destitute Pea Pickers in California” by Dorothea Lange http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b29516/ “ Marie Antoinette and her Children” by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun http://www.wikiart.org/en/louise-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun/marie-antoinette-and-her- children-1787 Set 2: “ Approaching a City” by Edward Hopper http://goo.gl/SyHuKZ “South Broadway at Chelton Avenue” by Camilo Vergara http://goo.gl/37uw5a (Note: If you are unable to access the NY Times site, you can also see Vergara's image here: http://tigrepelvar2.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/13gaspumps_4.jpg ) Set 3: “ Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman” by Gordon Parks http://goo.gl/E2DeU4 “ American Gothic” by Grant Wood http://goo.gl/GmNI5b Assignment: Working with one set of images, compare and contrast the two images in that set, and illustrate and explain your reasoning as to the main point(s) of comparison and/or contrast you find important for the viewer to study when looking at and thinking about both images. Your thesis should make an overall claim which states why you think it is useful, informative, interesting, significant, meaningful, etc to compare/contrast the images in the particular way(s) you describe in your essay. You will support your thesis by describing specific examples of details you observe while viewing the images yourself so that your reader can look at the images and see your basis for comparison/contrast and understand why these similarities and differences are important to consider. Assume that your reader has seen the two images you are discussing but that he/she does not have them available while reading your essay, so you will need to be very clear and specific when you refer to the images. Generating Ideas: You need to come up with a dominant idea , which means that it is not enough to simply list details about each image: you have to make a larger point . By “larger point,” I bet you can guess that I mean that you need to have a thesis statement , which means that you have to make a specific claim in your discussion of the two images, showing how the details you observe in these images help to prove the larger point you are making about what the viewer can learn from comparing and contrasting these images in the way(s) you explain in your paper . To come up with your thesis, start by observing the images carefully and reflecting on your observations, and do some freewriting about some of the questions from the "visual analysis checklists" in the textbook in Chapter 14 . Reread the observations described in your freewriting. What are the main things you notice about these images? Do you see more similarities or more differences? What effect do the images have on you as the viewer, and why do you think they have this effect? Hopefully, there is an idea or two you keep coming back to when thinking about the images. If you had to sum up your overall experience in trying to observe, think about, and freewrite on these images, what would you say? Do you think people will discover something new if they compare and contrast these images that they might not see in one image alone? What can people learn from looking at these images together? Structure/Organization: There are a couple of different options for structuring a comparison/contrast paper, as explained in Chapter 7. Please also see the .pdf file from the UNC Writing Center in the Essay 3 folder for some useful ideas. Two common patterns of organization for comparison/contrast are the “opposing” pattern (also called “block” or “subject-by-subject”) and the “alternating” pattern (also called “point-by- point”). Our textbook gives detailed templates for both patterns. With the opposing pattern, in the body of your essay, you discuss the images one at a time: you first have a paragraph in which you discuss one image on a series of specific points of comparison/contrast (not mentioning the second image in that paragraph), and then you discuss the second image on those same points in the next paragraph, referring back to the previous paragraph to clarify your ideas. In the alternating pattern, you compare/contrast the two images first on point one, then point two, and so on; this means you talk about both images together in all of your body paragraphs, showing how they each relate to specific points of comparison/contrast which are important to your discussion. Specs: Your essay should be 3 to 5 double-spaced pages in length. Be sure to state your thesis clearly in a succinct statement at the beginning of your essay. Support your thesis by referring to specific details you have observed in the images you are discussing. Different people notice different things when they look at visual art, so you need to be specific to try and help your reader look again at the artwork and see the same things that you notice. As with literature, there is no one “correct” way to see visual art or to interpret what it means or why it is interesting or significant, but you must back up your ideas by pointing out specific details . 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