Paper 3: Your Horror Story
Please write a horror story that is 7-10 pages long, typed and double-spaced. The story should deal with contemporary horrors--things that are scary about our current cultural and political situation. You may want to spend some time browsing news sites to become inspired. You may base your story on "true events" if you like. Make sure you format the story following standard fiction guidelines for dialogue, etc.
Some examples: Student loans have reached epic proportions, with many students never getting out of debt. You could write a horror story where a desperate student becomes a killer in order to steal from the rich in order to pay back his student loans.
The climate is in desperate conditions. You could write a narrative about a monster that represents environmental destruction in some way or another, such as Godzilla or The Host.
Please also include a two page critical analysis of your story. You will essentially analyze your own work, as you have analyzed the works of others on a daily basis. Please approach it critically, and look at the contemporary fears and situations that your work examines. This paper should follow MLA guidelines, and should be typed and double-spaced.
Some examples: Student loans have reached epic proportions, with many students never getting out of debt. You could write a horror story where a desperate student becomes a killer in order to steal from the rich in order to pay back his student loans.
The climate is in desperate conditions. You could write a narrative about a monster that represents environmental destruction in some way or another, such as Godzilla or The Host.
Please also include a two page critical analysis of your story. You will essentially analyze your own work, as you have analyzed the works of others on a daily basis. Please approach it critically, and look at the contemporary fears and situations that your work examines. This paper should follow MLA guidelines, and should be typed and double-spaced.
When you present your work to the class, you will be required to share some kind of a visual component.It could be a poster board, a video, a website, a video game, an app, or some other creative approach. It's great if you can create a visual aide that is conceptually in line with the fears that your story unpacks.
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