PRIMARY READINGS: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
SECONDARY READINGS: see additional files.
Academic texts: “The Militarization of American Professional Sports: How the Sports-War intertext influences Athletic Ritual and Sports Media” by Tricia Jenkins; “How the NFL became the American war game” by Michael Oriard; “Football and War, American Style” by Paul Pillar; “Sport as Escape” by Jeffrey O. Segrave
BASIC ASSIGNMENT:
This assignment asks you to produce a thesis-driven analysis, complemented by secondary sources, on an aspect of rhetoric in the assigned text, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Building on what you learned in the critical reading response paper, you will now write a more expansive rhetorical analysis of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.
Length: 6-7 pages (1800-2250 words). Typed, double-spaced, and presented in MLA format. A minimum of three (3) secondary sources, not including the primary text being analyzed, must be used to develop the essay. A working bibliography with source annotations is required as part of the final draft.
CLASS-SPECIFIC PROMPT:
Remember that the rhetorical reason for satire like Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is to bring about change, it seeks to reform public behavior, shore up its audience’s standards, or at the very least provide a wake-up call in an otherwise seemingly corrupt culture. Also, those who read contemporary novels like Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk understand its satirical uses of language, which cause them to think further about the social trends, or social structures the author mocks or ridicules (or reveals and highlights).
Your thesis AND essay should answer the following questions:
1) How does Fountain use specific language techniques or the elements of style/storytelling such as imagery, hyperbole, allusions, metaphors, flashbacks, characterization, setting, etc. to reveal or highlight this social trend to his adult male audience in order to influence or move or persuade or convince the audience that this is, indeed, a social trend worth questioning in today’s American culture?
2) What is Fountain suggesting or questioning about this social trend and why is it important to his adult male audience?
the additional instructions are in the additional files.
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