Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Revolutionary Road Assignment

Requirements
  1. Your paper must be 500 words long. You may write more. In order to find out how many words you have written, you can go to http://www.wordcounttool.com/ and paste your text in.
  2. Your paper MUST be emailed to Wende at wendemm@gmail.com by 3pm pacific time on Monday October 5 2009 (see Late Policy).
  3. Your paper text must be in the body of the email you send.
  4. Your email must have "CFS" in the subject line.
Assignment
After you write this paper/reflection, please set it aside for a day and then read it over, correcting mistakes and making sure that you came to some sort of conclusion at the end of your paper. This is a serious essay. In order to get full points, you need to have engaged deeply with the questions.
  • In the film Revolutionary Road (2008) April Wheeler (played by Kate Winslet) asks her husband Frank Wheeler (played by Lenardo DiCaprio) "who made these rules?". In your essay, please list the rules you think she was referring to. Please be as detailed and complete as possible. Be sure you cite scenes that demonstrate your claims. Remember I have seen the movie. You do not need to summarize it. Time spent summarizing will drop how many points you can earn.
  • Next, comment in depth about what rules are in place today. It may be that, in your opinion, some of the exact same rules are in place today. It may be that different ones are in place. There is no right answer.

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