Chapter Analysis
Chapter Analysis: How to Simplify Your Work
Have you ever heard about a goal differentiation method? To cut a long story short, the principle of the method is to divide a complex goal or a task into simple subtasks. Handling the subtask, you achieve the complex goal. This method is universal and can be applied to literature.
For instance, you have to analyze a considerable opus, since you have to keep all the details in mind, it is not a piece of cake. In this case performing chapter analysis is more rational and effective. If the opus in not divided into chapters, which happens quite rarely, you can do it yourself.
The chapter analysis: Moving towards a goal
The chapter analysis is an intermediate result that will be used to analyze the whole opus. Study the following recommendations to find out how to write the chapter analysis:
- Make notes. Try to write down all that comes into your mind immediately after you read a chapter. Thereby you will not have to get back to the text to refresh your memory.
- Remember that a chapter is a part of the opus. Thus you should not write a detailed chapter analysis and far-reaching conclusions, but note quotations and moments that you consider important for the analysis of the opus. You will not have to use all the quotations you noted, pick up only most significant to include in the chapter analysis.
- Write brief conclusion. The conclusion to each chapter should be brief and concrete, few sentences are enough. Brief summary is especially important if you are bounded by the format (particularly by the length) of the opus analysis.
- Bring everything together. On this stage your role is to write the analysis of the whole opus on the basis of chapters’ analysis, i.e. quotations and brief conclusions. Your notes will help you to see into author’s motives and write a brilliant opus analysis.
With the help of goal differentiation method you will be able to write the opus analysis on the basis of the chapter analysis. Applying the method you will avoid typical problems, such as reading or looking through the opus once and again, spending time looking for a phrase or a quotation in the text, etc. In addition performing the chapter analysis is at least 90% of work on the opus analysis. Try writing the chapter analysis when you work with big opuses and enjoy the results!