I am so angry right now
i CANT write my paper
I have been sitting here for 10 hours
I have written 6 different versions of the introduction
each of which I despise more than the other
I read
reread
rereread
the assignment ASSignment
it is meaningless to me.
I really do not believe this has anything to do with my father's death.
I am either not ready to write essays like this essay
or
the professor just wrote a bunch of stuff down without thinking much about it...

Ill show it to you although I don't think that'll help:

• Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper on how Native American literature is rooted in storytelling culture. Consider the following questions, using specific passages from the readings to support your responses:

o How was storytelling used in Native American culture?
o What literary conventions are consistent with Native American storytelling traditions? How do those conventions serve a purpose in the story?
o How does social identity play a role in Native American literature and storytelling?
o How do the characters in the texts relate to their cultural context? Why is this important to the story?
o How does the language the authors use contribute to the story’s effectiveness?
o What were the historical, socio-political, and cultural events that influenced each of the texts you selected? Why are they important to the story?

How do you make a thesis statement out of that?! There is so much to cover and yet... almost no way I can think of to tie it all together. For example... NA literature uses conventions like Trickster characters and creation myths
so I find ... say 3 works to cite tricksters.... fine that is easy... but while I am citing the tricksters do I add the language effectiveness... the historical events... do I do it to all three works cited? Ill end up having this enormous paragraph which is only 1 paragraph describing 1 convention... there are at least 4 others... I feel like the whole paper is going to be a hodge podge of information... made meaningless by its disconnection.

Does anyone have any ideas? how do I cover all this?