There are 4 stories in the Doctorow book – those count as 4 different texts. The

There are 4 stories in the Doctorow book – those count as 4 different texts. There are two films (pleasentville 1998 and Boy 2010 – those are another 2 texts. This adds up to SIX texts in total, since the Hickey book will be dealt with in the exam on its own.
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write it as an outline (intro, thesis, body paragraph and conclusion) it doesn’t have to be that long.
These are the 6 fiction texts:
“Unauthorized Bread” (story)
“Model Minority” (story)
“Radicalized” (story, not whole book)
“Masque of the Red Death” (story)
Pleasantville (film)
Boy (film)
You can connect ANY ONE of the 6 texts (the 4 stories and 2 films) to ANY OTHER ONE of those 6 texts. use major themes, You CAN NOT talk about the same text more than once, so you will need to have a few different combinations in mind.
here are just my own examples
-CORPORATE CONTROL VS. CONSUMER CHOICE
-SURVEILLANCE & SOCIAL CONTROL
-FANTASY VS. REALITY
-BURDEN OF REPRESENTATION
-SOLIDARITY VS. INDIVIDUALISM
Major theme examples for ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ Doctorow are the
– Rise of individualism under late-stage capitalism (current stage of capitalism characterized by globalization, the dominance of multinational corporations, broad commodification and consumerism, and extreme wealth inequality.
-Imagining the apocalypse
– Doomsday prepping for rich individuals