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STEPS:
1. Introduce the quotation in your paragraph.
2. Enclose all the words that the AUTHOR says in the original text with DOUBLE quotation marks: " "
3. Enclose all the words that the AUTHOR'S CHARACTER says with SINGLE quotation marks (the apostrophe!):
'
4. At the end of the sentence that includes the quotation, include the information to tell the reader where you
got the quotation. Here's the formula:
Open parentheses + author's name + page number(s) + close parentheses
Example: (Fitzgerald 20-21) = Fitzgerald's book, pages 20-21
5. Please a period at the end of the sentence and/or at the end of quotation.
6. Continue your paragraph, analyzing the quotation.
See below for examples.
When he and Daisy are reunited, Daisy’s reaction to his belongings is just
what Gatsby had hoped for. " ‘They're such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her muffled
in the folds. It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts’ " (Fitzgerald 98). Daisy is extremely materialistic, and in the end Daisy really never cared for Gatz, but she did care for
his money and the popularity he had among the people of West Egg.
However, Kingston does not want either of the two options that are given; she wants more than those
two unjust alternatives. Her sister would rather embrace the idea of becoming
a slave girl, “Throughout childhood my younger sister said, ‘When I grow
up, I want to be a slave,’ and my parents laughed encouraging her” (Kingston 82). Kingston’s mother,
who is a part of this culture, wants her daughter to be a slave, yet the mother is
already a slave to her husband and these cultural decisions.
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