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Using your reading, class notes, and journals, compose a 750-1000 word analysis addressing the prompt of your
choice. Longer quotations should not be included in the word count. You may use earlier works, too. Please come
see me during office hours at any time if you have questions, or simply if you are having trouble starting the paper.
Assignment Goals
Assignment Requirements
Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1 margins all
around
MLA format (work titles should be italicized,
quotations should have page attributions, etc.)
Addresses a prompt for a work you did not use
for Response #1 or Midterm Paper
Clear, arguable thesis statement
Considers two to three scenes in the work
Uses textual evidence to advance an
interpretation
Explains connection of interpretation to real
world issues in conclusion
Redeployment
Make an argument for an interpretation of one short story in Redeployment using journals, class notes, historical
context, discussions, interviews with authors, and your own close reading of short sections.
You may want to consider one of the following areas:
What Redeployment, Prayer in a Furnace, or Psychological Operations is saying about our
relationships with people (and animals) at home and abroad, and what the narrators interactions say about
our attitudes towards war. You may also want to consider how the narrator deals with the psychological
effects of returning home.
What After Action Report, Psychological Operations, or War Stories can tell us about what it means
to own a story, and what it means to tell a story. What is tellable? What is hearable? What is recounted in
dialogue? What is left out and why?
How Bodies, Prayer in a Furnace, or Unless its a Sucking Chest Wound comment on the network of
support staff who are generally overlooked when we think of service, particularly in terms of identity. What
is the narrators job, and what is his relationship to that work? How does it affect how he interacts with
others, both soldiers and civilians?
How Money as a Weapons System highlights concerns about infrastructure and relationships with Iraqi
civilians. Choose one or two plot points to use as the basis for an argument about how this short story
influences our understanding of the broader implications of war.