ZL IN-CLASS ESSAY #6 Jol ase Holl Ditections: Choose ONE ofthe following prompts. You may use your MWDS. Also, you MUST write about Maus OR The Things They Carried—do not attempt an essay where you write about both. When you are done, “— staple your MWDS to your essay. This essay is worth fifty points using the 9-point conversion chart. Prompt: “Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he i @ : ‘pathological liar ition writing i ll about telling the truth. Doa't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as, ‘powerful and often enough more so than fact.” “Paul Harding, 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ‘Choose a novel or play in which the author or narrator subverts the notion of linear truth in favor of “imaginative truth.” Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how: this subversion affeets the ‘meaning ofthe work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot. on In Jim Powell's ook Postmodernism for Beginners, he argues, “To attempt to represent Auschwitz in language—to reduce the degradation, death and stench to a concept—drowns out the screams..itis therefore necessary that the Holocaust remains immemorial—that it remains that which cannot be remembered~but {Also that which cannot be forgotten, Thus, any art attempting to represent the Holocaust shoul continue to ‘haunt us with its inability to represent the unrepresentable, to say the unsayable. Itshould continue to haunt ) Se an ees ae car een Naa a te eet \ ‘unrepresentable.” Select a novel or play that deals with war and explain how the work continues to “haunt Se \ ‘with the feeling that there is something other than representation.” Do not merely summarize the plot. S <<