Due: Monday, June 8, 2009
Pick one of the authors we've encountered over the second half of the term to imitate in your own story. Write an original piece in which you follow the lead of your author in using one image, event, metaphor, or phrase to center your story around.
For instance, Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" centers around the title metaphor; Viramontes' "The Moths" uses the title image; John Updike centered his "A&P" around the title setting (the A&P grocery store); Kincaid uses the her title "Girl" to define gender roles of impoverished Caribbeans. Garcia Marquez gives us "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World."
What will you give us? These authors' stories use these focal points to explore the lives of their characters, and the worlds they live in. What is your story, what kind of world does it exist in, and what kind of image will help shape that world? Rather than tell us directly, use your focal "one" to paint your story. Use sensory descriptions; pay attention to your mimicked author. How do they write? What language can you take from them and make your own?
Guidelines: 2 pages, single-spaced, and title your piece with a title that is going to grab your readers attention and get them into the story (The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World!)
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