How does I Want to Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino explore themes of mortality, human connection, and personal transformation, and how does it compare to similar narratives in Your Lie in April and A Silent Voice?

This paper will involve several processes: 1.) Building off the annotated bibliography, you should have already selected a specific literary work and research question to be the main focus of your research paper. These will continue to guide your research writing here, further specifying and refining your ideas as they develop. 2.) Turn your research question into a thesis statement in which you attempt to answer your research question. It should be specific, persuasive, direct, and innovative. 3.) Use your sources to support, defend, or contest your claims. Some will be primary sources, such as the literary work itself, or maybe other creative works, like other stories, films, songs, shows, etc. Some will be secondary sources: articles about the literary work, or those about history, politics, current events, literary approaches, etc. Every source should connect back to your thesis statement as you build an argument for a particular interpretation of your chosen literary work. 4.) Organize your writing with an introduction, body, and conclusion. Since this is a large, complex paper, an outline is necessary to keep you organized. Every paragraph should have a clear topic sentence that should directly support the thesis. 5.) Include a Works Cited page detailing your sources, all of which must be cited parenthetically and accurately incorporated within the body of the paper. 6.) In the last week of the class, volunteers will present their papers in informal class presentations. Just explain your main point and summarize the most compelling evidence you used to prove it. • Your paper should be 5+ pages long (not including the Works Cited page), double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, with page numbers and 1” margins all around. • Remember that you are adding something new and innovative to the study of your literary work. Do not just mimic another literary critic; add something new to the academic discussion! Make connections to other texts, historicize the time period of the author or work, connect its theme to current events, and/or focus on a particular aspect of the work (gender, race, symbolism, psychoanalysis, etc.), and so on. • When you submit this to Canvas, it will be evaluated by Turnitin, which checks for plagiarism. Therefore, be very careful about putting quotes around anything lifted directly from another source, parenthetically citing any and all texts you reference, and having a carefully constructed Works Cited page. You could fail the paper if you are not careful about differentiating between your words/ideas and your sources’. Evaluation: This paper is worth 100 points of your total grade, including 10 points for a rough draft and 10 points for a peer review. Your final draft will be graded on the following: ❖ Using your own words to effectively assert claims in the academic conversation ❖ Demonstrating proficiency with research, including a Works Cited page, citations, and quotes ❖ Organizing your paper and your argumentative approach effectively ❖ Practicing conventions of grammar, punctuation, and spelling