EXERCISE 6: (pick one): Exercise 1: Name the best book, movie, play, or poem you

EXERCISE 6: (pick one): Exercise 1: Name the best book, movie, play, or poem you have ever read or seen, something that affected you deeply and even, perhaps, changed your life in some way. How did it affect you? Why? Why do you think it might qualify as literature–a work of art? What part of culture and time was this book? That is, what part of American or foreign culture, society, politics, and geographical area does it fit into? Why– what tells you this? How does this relate to your own culture and time, the one you are living now or that you have lived in this life? How does this particular piece of literature fit in with your own personal philosophy? Why? How did it change, strengthen, or weaken your personal philosophy of life? Exercise 2: If you could design a piece of great literature, any piece at all, who would you want as the hero or heroine? Why? Who or what would you have as obstacles or resistances? Why? How would these obstacles or resistances hinder the hero/heroine? What would be the very worst obstacle/resistance? Why is it the worst? What kind of emotions would you expect your hero/heroine to have? Your readers to have? Why? (above questions taken from 14. Literature: The Language Art — ExperiencingtheHumanities.org (jewell.net))