INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS INTO YOUR PAPER, MLA STYLE

The Quote: “When I was your age I was without knowing that one day I would be so far. You are wiser than that, Eliot. You already taste the way things must be.”

I. INTRODUCE QUOTES

In Lahiri’s story, “Mrs. Sen,” the title character says...

In an important passage in “Mrs. Sen” occurs when she tells Eilot that...

Later, in the same story, Mrs. Sen tells Eilot...

II. CITE PAGE NUMBER AND/OR AUTHOR

(123) OR (Lahiri 123)

NOT (The Book), OR (The Interpreter of Maladies), OR (Jhumpa)

III. RESPOND TO THE QUOTE

In Lahiri’s story, “Mrs. Sen,” the title character tells the young boy, Eilot that, ““When I was your age I was without knowing that one day I would be so far. You are wiser than that, Eliot. You already taste the way things must be” (123). This is an important moment, since it gives Eliot his first ‘taste’ of what it means to be an exile, and why his home will never be a home to her. It also warns him that any of us can become exiles later in life, even though we can’t imagine leaving the comfortable circles of our homes and families.

IV. WORKS CITED PAGE

Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Mrs. Sen.” The Interpreter of Maladies. Boston:

        Houghton Milfflin Company, 1999.

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. “The Story of a Head That Fell Off.” Rashomon

        and Seventeen Other Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.