Please read Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America” (Attached).
– Please watch the film Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996) via Netflix or Amazon streaming. (https://montclair.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c061cfe8-420f-4aa3-a099-aae20119b976) THE LINK <<<
– As you watch the film, consider these questions (attached) and then provide your complete answers.
ENGL 116. The Coming of Age Theme in World Literature
Prof. M. Trubiano
Fall 2019
TOPIC: Food in World Literature and Film
DUE: Tuesday, 10/15, 11:59PM
Please read Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways of Being in America” (Canvas Mukerhjee module).
Please watch the film Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996) via Netflix or Amazon streaming. (If you cannot access it there, there is a – somewhat less ideal – video in Canvas, Panopto Recordings.)
As you watch the film, consider these questions and provide your answers via the related Assignment link (actually a participation grade worth 20 points).
1. Primo (“first,” or “first course” in English) and Secondo (“second” or “second course”) are immature in certain respects. In what ways? What constitutes their finally “growing up”? (Do they grow up?)
2. Ta-Nehisi Coates helped us to contextualize the well-known opinion that maintains that if individuals fail at the Dream in the USA, it must somehow be their own fault. In Big Night, the Bank manager says to Secondo as he announces the imminent foreclosure on the loan, “We can’t help people who won’t help themselves.” What do you think of this opinion?
3. What “two ways of being in America” do the two brothers represent?
4. The banquet that the brothers prepare for the missing Louis Prima and guests is obviously a sensual experience, loaded with emotion. How do the directors represent this? Have we encountered this representation of food preparation and consumption before in our short stories?
5. What opposing views about food do Primo and Pascal (Pasquale) represent?
6. How does the preparation of food in this film and in Giunta’s and Munro’s short stories relate? Compare and contrast.
7. Discuss the use of language in this film. Why does some dialogue remain untranslated? Where do misunderstandings due to language occur? When is the loss of command of a language pointed out and why?
8. How do you interpret the end of the film? What will happen next in the brothers’ story?
9. Does food and food preparation occupy an important space in your life? Why or why not?
10. Do you have any favorite recipes and food preparation rituals that speak to you of more than just nutritional sustenance? Would you be willing to share one such recipe?
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