prompt:
1.Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain is about boundaries—the title itself is a reference to the U.S. Mexico border— that are both imagined and real (connotative and denotative). How does Boyle use these boundaries, and the concept of boundary crossing, to explore the fundamentally different relationships that the Mossbachers and the Rincons have to the California/American dream? Is there an ultimate point to Boyle’s novel, and if so what is it? There are many boundaries you can explore: walls, gates, roads, urban-wilderness interface, language, class, race, food, housing, legality, consumerism, and many more.
*While this is an open-ended prompt, I would urge you to develop an outline before drafting your essay. I expect the essay to be well organized, carefully argued, and rigorously supported with detailed readings from the novel. Do not simply provide a list of the different types of boundaries. Explain why they are important and analyze the cultural labor they are performing.
requirements:
12-point New Romans Font
Double Spaced
All citations must accord with MLA style. If you need a refresher on citation, please visit Purdue OWL at: https://owl.purdue.edu/
You do not need outside sources for this essay. The novel and supplemental readings should be all you need to finish your essay.
Your references must be included in a works cited page at the end of the essay.
Please remember, the works cited page does not apply to the word count.
Supplemental Readings (you are not required to use or even read these documents, but you may find them useful for providing scholarly context for your analysis).
Eric Avila, “’The Nation’s White Spot’” (pp.2-64), from: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
Mike Davis, “Fortress L.A.” (especially pp, 244-250), from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990). This book is available online through the UCR library website.
Mike Davis, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” (especially pp. 136-147), from: Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998). A PDF of this document is in iLearn’s “Course Materials” section.
James A. Roberts, “Treadmill of Consumption,” from: Maasick and Solomon, Signs of Life in the U.S.A (10th ed.)
Jia Tolentino, “’How “Empowerment” Became Something for Women to Buy, from: Maasick and Solomon Signs of Life in the U.S.A (10th ed.)
Julia B. Corbett, “A Faint Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World,” from: Maasick and Solomon, Signs of Life in the U.S.A (10th ed.)
please contain at least four sources besides the tortilla curtain book from above.
https://ebooks.darknetproxy.com/index.php?page=13&… tortilla curtain ebook website.
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