Follow carefully the instructions given below: What will you specifically review in Silas Marner? Write out the thesis statement
for your review. Send that thesis to your teacher to review to make sure that it is manageable. Write a finished outline of your book review. Be sure you can work with it. Write your critical book review according to your outline. You must deal with character, plot, setting, and technique. Credit quotations from Silas Marrner and other sources with parenthetical citations and a works cited page according to MLA format (or whatever format your teacher requires). Click here to review the MLA Style Guide. Your critical review should be at least 500 words long You will be graded on the following criteria: Clearly state your thesis and support it with evidence from the text. Use at least three specific quotes. Make sure each paragraph contains one main idea and supporting details. Use complete sentences including compound and complex sentences. Include an introductory paragraph, proper transitions, and an appropriate conclusion. Include parenthetical citations and a works cited page for all sources used, including your copy of Silas Marner. Make sure your essay contains no errors in conventions such as spelling or grammatical errors, and is at least 500 words long.
The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given against Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money. There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed. Silas is proclaimed guilty, however, after a drawing of lots. The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and instead marries William. With his life shattered and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city for a rural area where he is unknown.
Marner travels south to the Midlands and settles near the rural village of Raveloe in Warwickshire, where he lives isolated and alone, choosing to have only minimal contact with the residents. He throws himself into his craft and comes to adore the gold coins he earns and hoards from his weaving.
One foggy night, the two bags of gold are stolen by Dunstan ("Dunsey") Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner. Silas then sinks into a deep gloom, despite the villagers' attempts to aid him. Dunsey immediately disappears, but little is made of this by the community because it coincides with the death of the horse he was meant to be selling for his brother.
Supporting your thesis is the overall goal of your whole paper. It means presenting information that will convince your readers that your thesis makes sense. You need to take care to choose the best supporting details for your thesis.
