Define your theme for your audience. If you want to gain credibility with your reader, you will  cite another part of that same text.

1. Pick one quote and identify the source for the quote, i.e. the title under which it appears.
2. .After you have created a compelling opening, state a theme which we have discussed in class and which you believe is present in the quote or the work of art. Define your theme for your audience. If you want to gain credibility with your reader, you will  cite another part of that same text. For instance, if you picked Allegory of the Cave, then cite another part of that textwhich you feel speaks to your reading. Your reading is the subtext.  How does this quote relate to rest of that text and/or the period in which it was written?  For instance, do you see any connection between the quote and the art we have discussed in class?
3. Finally, try to relate it to our lives and be specific. These are 3 separate quotes. Again, pick one to discuss.

You may, moreover, chose to explain the image of a work of art that we have discussed in class. Identify the work. Then give me three artistic elements which we have discussed in class which will help someone who has never seen that work understand. Then explain how that work resonates with you. You could describe the artisanship which you perceive in that work. The images are at the bottom

Themes

We have discussed, for instance, the idea of a absolute truth or a pluralism of ideas. How does the author or myth which you picked discuss that topic? We have also discussed the concept of heroism. Is or are the figure(s) heroic in the quote which you picked? If so, how do you define heroism or friendship or our duty to our country? Just address one quote and one topic. You may address one of these concepts or address some other idea which you see in your quote; nevertheless, stay focused on one topic.

Quote 1: he listened to his words and wept quick tears, [he] listened and his tears flowed. He opened his mouth and spoke to Enkidu: ‘Who is there in strong-walled Uruk who has wisdom like this? Strange things have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely? The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown that misery comes at last to the healthy man, the end of life is sorrow.’ And [he] lamented, ‘Now I will pray to the great gods, for my friend had an ominous dream.

Quote 2: But these problems, however urgent, should not cause us to neglect Dewey’s insight that learning in the process of living is the deepest form of freedom. In a nation that aspires to democracy, that’s what education is primarily for: the cultivation of freedom within society. We should not think of schools as garrisons protecting us from enemies, nor as industries generating human capital. Rather, higher education’s highest purpose is to give all citizens the opportunity to find “large and human significance” in their lives and work.

Quote 3: Peter Singer of Princeton University has pioneered the public discussion of our moral obligations to animals, including those we raise to eat. Singer wrote a landmark book in 1975,Animal Liberation , and cites utilitarian reasoning to argue that it’s wrong to inflict cruelty on cows, hogs or chickens just so that we can enjoy a tasty lunch..

Quote 4: Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner? Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.