In his essay assignment, you will choose an Urban Legend of your own choosing, but be sure to keep your choice within the last 50.60 years.
You will explore the origin of the Urban Legend that you have chosen, as well as explore whether it has evolved over time to reflect the changing attitudes, ideologies, and no within a given society. You will also summarize and give your reader context for the Urban Legend.
You will need to ask yourself what an examination of urban legends can reveal about a given society, such as values, fears, ideologies, etc.
Not only will you have to summarize and briefly .11 your reader about the urban legend, the summary is not to dominate your test, but you will be expected to devme most of your essay towards your analysis.
This Is not only an exercise of your summarizing skills, but the development of your skills of close analysis that will be dernonArated through the close reading of the Urban Legend itself.
Using the “Rhetorical Square” text from Canvas, you will analyze the Urban Legend using ALL FOUR elements grone/Voice, Message, Purpose and Audience).
This will help you to analyze the Urban Legend more closely. You will need to use your analysis to make an argument as to what a close reading of the story can reveal about a given society, such as (but not limited to). • What are we cautious of and why, • What are some societal fears? • What are some changes that have occurred in society that is then reflected In the Urban Legend Itself, • What social rules/morals that are being reinforced by the story,
