Repeat: Final & Due Date

Due:

• By e-mail as a .DOC or .RTF file: 4pm, Thursday, June 17, 2010 (cankney AT colum DOT edu)

OR

• Hard copy handed in Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by 4pm (in classroom)

Worth: 25 points = 25% of final grade

Guidelines:

• MLA format, including citation and Work Cited page
• No outside sources necessary, stick to your critical reading of texts
• 12 point font, double-spaced, Times New Roman or Cambria
• Make sure you use essay form, including a thesis statement that clearly answers the prompt.
• Creative and Critical View starts in title!
• Four (4) to five (5) pages, focusing on analysis of text

Prompt:

Praise for the novel from Esquire magazine includes, “. . . In Diaz’s landscape we are all the same, victims of a history and a present that don’t just bleed together but stew. Often in hilarity. Mostly in heartbreak.”

In four to five pages, analyze the downfall of Oscar Wao. In your argument, discuss the roles ‘silence’ and ‘love’ play in Oscar’s life (and death) as you answer how his life represents not only the de Leon clan’s or any Dominican immigrant, but anyone’s.