micro-essay assignment one!

Due September 20, 2004, MONDAY, at the beginning of class.

The specifics?
 

TYPED!

TWO-PAGES TOPS!

NO COVER PAGE or FOLDER, a STAPLE is fine.

YOU MUST PUT YOUR GTAs NAME on the TOP OF THE ESSAY ABOVE your name. You should have an EYE-GRABBING TITLE.

WRITE as if your LIFE depended on it.

DO NOT try to guess what we want; merely douse us with the exhilirating force that is YOUR imagination.

   

What will you write?  Fill in the blanks and complete the following paragraph. TWO pages tops! Can't write that LITTLE? then EDIT EDIT EDIT
 

YOUR GTA's NAME:_______________________________ YOUR ENGLISH 220 SECTION NUMBER____________________ YOUR NAME_____________________________ YOUR AMAZING TITLE      It does not take a great stretch of the imagination to argue that Nathanael West and Billy Wilder share some significant and significantly twisted interests.  For instance, West's Day of the Locust (1939) spends much of its time focusing on ______________________________________  ___________________; while Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard unfolds as an exposé of________________________________________________.  Let's look at one key moment from each work that makes the case for a West/Wilder tale of collusion.  [continue this essay selecting specific textual outtakes from West's novel and references to specific scenes/images from Wilder's movie to make your case strong.]       Having focused on one of the places where the novelistic vision of West and the cinematic eye of Wilder overlap, let us conclude by identifying one of the places they conflict.  Where Nathanael West's satiric fiction illustrates ____________________________________________________, Billy Wilder's tragic comedy seems a tad more interested in_______________________________________.