120607 Comparative Literature 2DW Men in the Sun - Concern with argument of escapism - Reflection of Palestinian culture up until

the 60s - Transformation: trauma for the Palestinian culture o Nakba: Arabic for catastrophe - Storys attempt to change the condition of denial - Ending: possibility of extinction o Precisely as a way to gain the strength and ability to avoid that extinction o Emotional structure of the story - Silent death o Abul Khaizuran: Why did you knock? o *** the conclusion of the story is a opening of a question: is their death a passive death imposed by external forces or a decision to make a statement Enigma o Dismal ending, but not hopeless/oblique: asks questions about fate that these three strangers have come to share at the end of their lives Waltz with Bashir - ***NOT ON EXAM*** - Focus on the Israeli soldiers (veterans) decades after their participation in the Lebanon War in 1982 as teenagers - Israelis come to term with the fact that the soldiers are not heroes but rather participants of something horrific - *** Is it possible for this to be an antiwar film? - Animation Final Exam: -