Assignment #1: Watch and take notes on the documentary of Harold Scheub. Write a one page essay in response to the following question. Scheub talks about the importance of body to the storyteller. What is gained and lost in a written story?
Assignment #2: Choose three stories out of the six listed here. Read the story and interpret the archetypes. Find no fewer than six examples of archetypes in each story for a total of 18 examples. Your submission for this assignment should have: the names of each of the stories you read and brief descriptions of the archetypes you found in the stories. Example: From "Qwebethe" the archetype of marriage occurs in the beginning when the woman marries her husband.
Assignment #3: Read Uwem Akpan's short story "My Parents' Bedroom." Take detailed notes that identify and interpret the characters, events, settings, and other main elements of the story. Choose one archetype to analyze in a one page essay. Remember, no more than 10-15% of the essay should be retelling--edit carefully and delete excessive retelling. Get to the interpretation, then to the analysis. Spend most of your time analyzing. Example: In the movie Rainman, Charlie and Raymond are mirror images of one another (identification and interpretation). Raymond symbolizes everything Charlie hates in the world, yet Charlie will not pass through his rite of passage until he is at peace with Raymond...(analysis)...(continue on with more analysis and as little retelling as possible).
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