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STEPS:
- Introduce the quotation in your paragraph.
- When you are going to start the quotation, insert a double quotation mark (").
- Copy the quotation exactly as it appears in the text. Insert a SLASH (/) at any line break that occurs in the original
text.
- When you get to the end of the quotation, insert a double quotation mark (").
- At the end of the sentence, include the information about where the quotation occurred in the text. Here's the formula
for that:
Open parentheses + author's last name + page number(s) + close parentheses
Example: (Haddon 36) = page 36 in the book by Haddon
6. Place a period at the END of the sentence AND/OR after the close parentheses.
7. Continue with your ideas, discussing the quotation further.
See below for a few examples!
When
Gatsby was first introduced in the book, Nick sees him looking at a green light across the lake, towards Daisy’s house. “He stretched out his arms toward the
dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward
— and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock”
(Fitzgerald 20-21). From this beginning chapter, the green light has an important meaning to Gatsby because he even
reaches his hand out to it like he could reach it.
The scene that Steinbeck sets in Of
Mice and Men is a completely male-dominated one. In the entire story, there is only one woman who actually interacts with
the other characters, and she does not even have a name. She is married to the son of the boss, and it is apparent that she
does not belong in the world of the ranchers. She is extremely attractive and pays a great deal of attention to her appearance,
even going so far as to wear shoes “on the insteps of which were little bouquets
of red ostrich feathers” (Steinbeck 31). No common woman who lived on a dirty, dusty farm would wear the plumage
of such an exotic bird on her feet, and as such, it is painfully apparent that Curley’s wife is an outsider.
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