https://padlet.com/tracey_behrens/ae7s2kc4yz13 Made with wonder en-us 2017-02-20 03:16:46 UTC 2017-02-24 18:35:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Cornershop.png tracey_behrens https://padlet.com/tracey_behrens/ae7s2kc4yz13/wish/156056244 You have read selections from Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey during which you identified (among other things) elements of the epic hero’s journey. Many people say the Coen brothers’ film O Brother, Where Art Thou, is a clever update of Homer’s text. Evaluate whether or not this claim is true by comparing and contrasting the epic poem and the film.

]]> 2017-02-24 15:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tracey_behrens/ae7s2kc4yz13/wish/156056244 tracey_behrens https://padlet.com/tracey_behrens/ae7s2kc4yz13/wish/156071858  Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience. Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot. 

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