Posted: December 15th, 2023
Choose one of the three major themes in Poking a Dead Frog:
audience
originality
difficulty of writing
Identify and summarize, paraphrase, or quote relevant examples from several of the interviews. Remember that a theme must recur throughout a text, so you need multiple examples taken from several different interviews in the book to adequately illustrate any specific theme. Explain how the examples illustrate the theme.
Then analyze and explain them. What do the comedy writers say? What are the different ways that they think about and approach the theme? What do they agree about? What do they disagree about? Explain how they relate to each other and what a reader can take from the text in regards to the theme.
Your post must be at least 250 words.
Note: You are encouraged to use this as a drafting exercise for your essay, meaning you can write about the same theme using the same examples and analysis, etc…
WE ARE ONLY ASSIGNED THESE CHAPTERS: I HAVE INCLUDE THE PAGE NUMBER WITH IT
James Downey (1-22)
Diablo Cody (30-31)
Mike Schur (32-48)
James L. Brooks (78-83)
Adam McKay (115-137)
Carol Kolb (181 – 196)
George Saunders (239 – 262)
Daniel Handler (352 – 358)
Dan Guterman (404 – 419)
Mel Brooks (430 – 447)
Place an order in 3 easy steps. Takes less than 5 mins.