WRITE A LOUSIE ERDRICH, LOVE MACHINE THEME ESSAY.

Step 1: BrainstormingPlease choose one of the readings (a poem, the story, or play) we have read in Unit 2-1 for this assignment. As you read and annotate the poem, short story or play, determine what you feel the writer’s strongest or most obvious theme is (or life lesson). You might ask yourself the question, what moral is the author, playwright, or poet teaching me? Or, what lesson about life am I learning as I read this? As you develop your thesis, consider this sentence:The writer teaches me __what life lesson?___ in “title.”As you fill in the blank, you’ll be identifying the unique theme that the writer has developed in his or her essay. It is important you articulate this, so you do not end up with a topical theme like “power” or “selfishness.” Ask yourself, what lesson do we learn about power and how it affects relationships? Or, what are the consequences of being selfish? You should move beyond a topical theme to identify the unique lesson the writer is teaching us in this particular reading.Identify the things in the story that make you feel you’ve learned the lesson or moral. You can use these observations as evidence of why you know the theme you’ve identified in the text exists.Step 2: PromptIn a 3 page essay, please answer the following question:Where do we see evidence of this theme in the text?Discussion of PromptAs you structure and compose your essay, you will want to make a case that this theme exists (other readers may not have picked up on it in the same way you did) by providing evidence from the text to support your thesis. You will also what to explain why this evidence supports your thesis. Do use materials assigned in this Unit to support your claims.