Great Works - OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT James Madison University

Instructions:
This is an optional assignment. Choose just one option. An acceptable effort will earn you FIVE points extra credit on the midterm. (Note that you don't get more credit for doing more than one, so just pick one!) Type your work, doublespaced, normal margins, preferably 12-point font.

• Read Anthony Boucher's short short story, "Rappaccini's Other Daughter" and write a response paper of at least one full typed page examining how Boucher's plays with Hawthorne's original story. Some possible issues are whether or not Boucher addresses any of the same thematic issues or motifs and how the style of narrative changes with transformation into modern science fiction.

OR

• Research Sumerian mythology/religion in a reputable source (not Wikipedia, for example!) and write up at least one full typed page on the similarities and differences you find between your source and the Snow Crash discussions of some particular aspect of mythology -- either a particular myth/story mentioned in the novel or a particular god/goddess discussed.