Analyzing connections between the texts, with support from close readings drawn from specific moments throughout the text(s). To do this, you will need to define a focused topic; since you can't discuss everything that happens in the text, it's a good idea to identify a theme within the work and analyze how it develops over the course of the story or poem. You can also focus on the development of one or more characters in the text. For example, you might want to focus on the role of slavery/servitude vs. freedom, or trace the parallel between Jane Eyre and Antoinette Mason.
You will need to support your points with evidence from the text--primarily quotations that you analyze. You can summarize parts of the text, but do not recap the entire plot for us (we've just read it too). Spend your time looking carefully at the details and drawing connections between them. Look for patterns, repetitions, images that are meaningful and tie in to the theme or character you're examining. There is no minimum number of quotations you must use, but the most successful essays will frequently cite and analyze details from the text(s) to make their points. Be sure to pick the most relevant, interesting, as well as concise examples you can from the text(s).
The other key requirement is that you cite at least two critical sources to help you make your point. You may figure out your overall topic through these readings, in fact. Your options for critical sources are any of the background or essay material in the back of your Norton editions of Jane Eyre or Wide Sargasso Sea
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