Analysis of One Week in light of Margaret Atwood's theory of Survival

31 Outubro 2018, 08:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Analysis of Michael McGowen's road movie  One Week in light of Margaret Atwood's theory of Survival


Comparison of sections of One Week with a more conventional Hollywood style road movie - Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (2005).
Comparison of narrator, narrative arc, solution etc.
Discussion of the Introduction to Atwood's Survival 

For next class students need to review the character of Ben Taylor, the protagonist of One Week in light of Atwood's victim positions. 
You also need to close read the opening three pages of Alice Munro's short story "Passion" (in manual) for next class.