INTEGRATING QUOTATIONS The eternal struggle

CRITERIA Quotations should fit smoothly into the surrounding sentence structure. They should be linked clearly to the writing around them rather than dropped abruptly into the writing.

At the beginning of the writer’s own sentence At the Beginning: "[A] house made of gingerbread and candy, with sugar window panes," is where the witch lived, and in part because of its deceptive appearance, the forsaken children were deceived.

Embedded In the Middle: The shoemaker's religious side was revealed when he "committed himself to heaven" after working on the leather for the shoes and before going to bed.

At the end of the writer’s own sentence At the End: The Brothers Grimm revealed the elves' happiness when "they hopped and danced about, jumping over chairs and tables, and at last they danced out the door" (559).

Divided by the writer’s own words Divided by Your Own Words: "[After] a while the family hardly ever saw him," author Wells writes of the Poor God's gradual disappearance, continuing, "It's not that he went somewhere else, it's just that after a while he wasn't there."

Introducing with a colon Introducing a Statement with a Colon: In the farmer's realization during "Shogatsu," Wells shows that being truly rich requires more than material things: "I thought I wanted to be truly rich. But there is singing in my house and laughter. I create beauty every day of my life. We are already truly rich."

Introducing with a comma Introducing a Statement with a Comma: Describing the shoemaker's optimistic personality, the author states, "His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles."

Introducing using “that” Introducing a Statement Using "That": At midnight, the shoemaker and his wife discovered that "two naked little dwarfs" were the source of their blessings."

“as…said”: Introducing a Statement Using "as . . . said": In fairy tales, supernatural events are often symbolic, for as John Silance has said, "When a character travels in a story and faces a supernatural figure (like a witch), it is sometimes a symbolic statement about a character seen earlier, or about some internal issue related to one or more of the earlier-mentioned characters".

Sample from “The Painted Door”: Combination The short story ‘The Painted Door’ takes place amidst a rural backdrop in the dead of winter. Sinclair Ross establishes this isolated setting immediately when in the opening paragraph he writes that, “…it was five miles from John's farm to his father's”, and that “…in winter,…the roads [surrounding the farm, were] impassible.”