ENG208.501 Topics in Early British Literaure: Into The Wild

Summer 2013

SHORT RESPONSE #4

Gulliver's Travels & Grizzly Man

Figure 1. Timothy Treadwell on Kodiak Island

Creative Response

Please respond to the following prompt with at least FOUR TO FIVE full paragraphs, and BE SURE to include in your response very specific details from the works under discussion [specific scene and plot details, direct quotations of the texts/film, etc.]. There are no right or wrong responses to the prompt below, but whatever your interpretation, you MUST ground that interpretation in a very CLOSE attention to the small details, scenes, and language of the works under consideration.

1. If Lemuel Gulliver and Timothy Treadwell sat down to have dinner together, what would they say to each other about their respective adventures in the so-called "wilderness"? Would they like each other, and why or why not?

This Short Response #5 is due to the Instructor by end of the day on Sunday, July 28th; please type your Exam as a Microsoft Word document, saving it with either a .doc or .docx file extension, and send it to Eileen Joy as an email attachment: eileenajoy@gmail.com. Please save your file as: Response4_Yourlastname.