Support your conclusions with short quotations, both from the textbook and from the readings.
Answer all of these questions, and please number them:
JOAN DIDION – WHY I WRITE:
You may not know who Joan Didion is, but she is one of the most widely read authors of creative nonfiction in the last half-century. In “Why I Write,” Didion writes, in different ways than Orwell, about the reasons why she writes, and particularly, why she wrote her novels Play It as It Lays and A Book of Common Prayer. And, unlike Orwell’s essay (from which she derived her title), Didion’s discussion of why she writes goes less to the matter of politics and world events, and more to the matter of the creative process and how it works.
1): What does Didion say is the most important ingredient in the creative process? Find the line or lines in the piece and quote them in support of your opinion.
2) What examples does she use to explain and illustrate this process? (Find and quote the appropriate lines in the article to support your opinion.)
TONI MORRISON – THE DAY, AND ITS SPLENDID PARTS
3) This piece is completely different from Didion’s piece, of course. But we can return to our underlying premise about the elements of prose narrative. Review the ‘REMINDER’ above, about the elements of effective storytelling, ook back through our text as you consider each of the readings, and come to an opinion about which of these literary elements weighs most heavily in the effectiveness of Morrison’s narrative, and why? Support your conclusions with short quotations, both from the textbook and from the reading.
PROMPT:
Begin with this line: She tried to remember who talked her into doing this. (Or, ‘He tried to remember who talked him into doing this.)
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