Before you Get Married Write a Critical Analysis Research Paper on Your Fiance
Before you Get Married Write a Critical Analysis Research Paper on Your Fiance
“Be sure” everyone told my sister Leigh this when she became engaged to Gabriel her high school sweetheart. She didn’t really listen to anyone else. She kept saying how in love she was and how happy she was that she finally found someone who understood her. Our parents never did. She had been dating Gabriel for one year and the summer before they were going off to college he got down on one knee at my sister’s graduation party. I laughed I was sure Leigh would say no. But she shocked everyone including my dad by saying yes. He had asked my dad for permission before buying a tiny rock that would be the object of years of payments for Gabriel and his car wash income. I never liked Gabriel. I always thought he was a little too controlling and manipulative. He always wanted my sister be around. He didn’t like to share her with anyone. And everything they did was on his terms. I sort of felt like Gabriel asking Leigh right before they went to college was another controlling factor. They were going to separate colleges. He to a local junior college and my sister was headed to one almost two hours away. They had already made plans for almost every weekend during the first semester of college. That evening, after I was able to pull my sister away from sucking face with him, I voiced my concern. Leigh was really angry. She told me how jealous I was and that I just didn’t want to see her happy. I asked her to do me one favor, write a critical analysis term paper on Gabriel. She look at me like I was nuts.
Leigh was a great writer. She was going to college to major in journalism. And she was so smart. She always did well in school and received very high marks on all her term papers. I think when it came to love she just couldn’t put her feelings aside. When I finally calmed Leigh down I told her that I wanted her to be happy and that this critical analysis research paper would be just for her. She wouldn’t even have to show it to me. I just wanted her to indeed “be sure” about Gabriel. I told her a marriage is for life and if hey were to get into a fight she couldn’t just walk away from it.
It just so happened that I had just finished my sophomore year in college. My final paper for Advanced Writing was a critical analysis research paper on a popular author. I searched through by school looking for my syllabus and notes finding the exact directions on how to write this paper. I took it right to Leigh she read it out loud in her most professional voice:
1. Pick a person of interest as you will have to give a deep biographical analysis of their life.
2. It is not enough to give a biographical synopsis of their life. It will have to be more analytical: i.e. because this happened in (blank) this led them to do ( blank)
3. Please give a clear thesis and weave it into every single paragraph
4. Site sources. Good reputable sources. Only two websites are permitted.
We laughed when she read the sources part. I did tell her it would be a good idea to talk to his parents a bit they would be good resource. And of course she should definitely plug his name into a search engine. You never know what someone could be hiding. Lastly I told Leigh to way the pros and cons. Did she feel like Gabriel was ambitious? Would he be able to support a family and hold a job? She rolled her eyes at that but did look like she was really started to take some of what I was saying to heart.
A week later Leigh handed me her critical analysis research paper. It made me laugh and cry. She said she had learned a lot while doing. The biggest thing was that Gabriel’s birth father left when he was very young and the reason why he indeed was so controlling was because his life was so out of control when he was little. She said she was very happy she did it and was still going to remain engaged to Gabriel, for now at least.
