1. Read these questions: http://web.mnstate.edu/provost/death_dying_wit.pdf
2. Watch the film: W;t – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PPvYlGqL8
3. Answer the questions in a 250 words essay response.
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This is a college level tranfer course, the second in a series where we will examine the poetics of life lived on the ground...as in rough and tumble, as in America at war with herself. This is a world art alone makes sense of, an artist's work is a gift freely shared like air...sympathetic systems aligned, the the fictive or imaginary worlds of possiblity simply an inhale or exhale away. This class is an opportunity to close your eyes and believe.
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Jules Moore
Sabir
April 8, 2014
250 Word Essay on Wit
Have you ever question you reason for existence? Why are you and I here? These are questions that we have all explored or ignored. In the movie “Wit” we see a English professor, Vivian attempts to no longer ignore but to define the meaning of life as she faces stage four cancer. Her struggle of life, death, and bridging the soul and body. Vivian’s body is used as a specimen as she is treated with experimental chemotherapy. As doctors poke and prod she is comforted by a nurse which leads to her discover of body and soul.
Vivian is a strong willed woman who has mastered the art of writing and speaking. She brings fear to her students but as she draws near to possible death she realizes she can’t explain life. She is trapped with her words and the words and uses them to find some sense of closure or clarity. She discovers that her whole life was based on learning as a scholar and with all that she knows while she lies in death bed it becomes meaningless.
With all the words in the world we are still stuck with defining life. Vivian’s states in the movie she no longer wants to quote anyone else, but to keep it simple and use her own words. The same is required of us, to define our lives with the days have. We may never have the literary aptitude to explain to the world the meaning for our existence but the petty and minor details are forgotten.
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