Writing Exercise #3
This writing exercise has three parts. Use this form to complete all parts and then submit it using the drop box in the Week 3 Module. Part 1: What overlap in subject matter, theme, tone, voice, diction, mood, or meaning do you see between Denis Johnson’s short story “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” which is the opening story of Jesus’ Son, and William Stafford’s poem “Traveling Through the Dark”? The overlap between the two poems is felt, firstly, in the subject since both poems refer to the Vietnam war and losses sustained in it. Furthermore, these losses ...
