write a 800 word essay on the short story "lather and nothing else" (file attached) Discuss the author’s use of literary devices (select three devices) in the short story, and how these elements were

write a 800 word essay on the short story "lather and nothing else" (file attached) Discuss the author’s use of literary devices (select three devices) in the short story, and how these elements were effective.  Provide examples and evidence from the story to support your points. (quotes cited in mla format)

5 PARAGRAPHS 

REMINDERS – DO NOT

Re-tell the story

Use the first person (I, we, us)

Write “I think” or “I believe”

Use contractions

Use informal terms like, “kids, guys, a lot” unless they are being quoted from the text

REMINDERS – DO

Discuss literature in the present tense

Stay consistent in your verb tenses

Put quotes into quotation marks

Include transitional sentences prior to quotations. E.g. Wyndham describes David as a character who is conflicted by his religious upbringing, as he struggles to come to terms with his telepathic ability.  For example, after the suicide of his Aunt Harriet, David prays nightly for God to render him normal: “ …God, let me be like other people.  I don’t want to be different.  Won’t you make it so that when I wake up in the morning I’ll be just like everyone else, please, God, please!”(76)