For the third close reading assignment, we will examine two specific texts: Severance and Annihilation .For each of the texts, answer the following
questions:
- What is the disaster conveyed in the text? Why is it a disaster?
- Can you identify ONE distinctive element about the way in which disaster is articulated in the text (for instance, any recurrent image. words.
symbols. …)? - How does the disaster serve as a way to think about identity?
When responding to the close reading. keep in mind that: - Answers are meant to be concise--this is not an essay but an assignment to foster engagement with the texts for the week.
- You need to provide textual evidence (quotes) to support your answer.
Please read the rubric to understand how your answers will be evaluated.
Annihilation, Alex Garland (director; streamed through IU Swank Motion Pictures).
Content note: This film, considered sci-fi horror (this is a fictional story, and it is NOT based on any real addresses and portrays several sensitive
topics and situations. There are depictions of cancer, mutating creatures, animal attacks, injured and cut bodies. hallucinations; these portrayals can
be graphic and triggering. Please read the film's summary on Wikipedia before watching it and the short list with some of the graphic portrayals as they
appear in the film (I compiled this list, and it does not cover every graphic depiction, for there could be some other portrayals that can be triggering for
people that | did not identify). Before watching it, determine if there are topics or situations that you would have-a hard time watching and engaging
with; you can fast-forward the listed scenes, for example, and still have the experience of the film. Det dascer cr nce once ned
Wiki summary : https://en wikipedia. org/wiki/Annihilation_(film)
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