please pick two passages of the three presented below and write a short response close reading (400-500 words) for each. The objective here is to identify the passage and the text it is from, consider the passage being presented, its context within the narrative, and how this scene is used to generate meaning, complicate and enrich the narrative, or enhance the storytelling. Focus on the language, the syntax, the composition, mis-en-scene, and so forth, depending on the passages you select.
1. A picture from file: “no.1 present” which has a relationship with the book “Persepolis The Story of a Childhood”
2.View the clip at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaRKNY1Efk A PDF copy of the scene can be found at file “Adaptation – McKee Scene”
3. “The next time one of the ringworm boys came in from Cleveland, Elwood asked the kid to bring back some books for him to read, and he did. Plotted down a stack of battered natural science book that by accident provided a course in ancient forces: tectonic collisions, mountain ranges thrown up to the sky, volcanic bombast. All the violence roiling beneath that makes the world above. They were big books with exuberant pictures, red and orange, in contrast with the cloudy, white-gone-gray of the ward” (77). which is a part of “The_Nickel_Boys_by_Colson_Whitehead.pdf”
The final exam must be minimum 800 words and maximum 1000 words (be sure to include a word count at the end of the essay). Please submit the essay in double-spaced Times New Roman 12-point font with 1-inch margins. Please see the example essay in the Assignments module for formatting reference.
