1. This piece is extremely stylistic. It's written in a very unusual way given the nature of the content. It's chronological, and is explored in mini chapters marked with roman numerals. That aside, the actual story being told is pretty disturbing. It seems to be about a man suffering very badly from post traumatic stress and an abusive personality disorder written form the point of view of his wife/spouse/girlfriend. That is, at least for some of it. It switches between point-of-view from chapter to chapter. The inclusion of Bob Dylan was frankly lost upon me. That may be because I haven't quite had time to digest it yet. The exploration of how Bob Dylan "transformed" seemed important, but perhaps I need to know more about Dylan's life to really know what that was in reference to. Overall, I come away from the reading confused, the story of this gentlemen's life (or six gentlemen's and women's lives for all i know) is fractured and depressing.
2. WELL not really much. Sorry. This article was written in an extremely confusing way. I'm sure whoever wrote it still won an award from someone who is far smarter than me. There was a part at the beginning about how this guy lost his temper, and the way it was described is actually familiar to me a little bit. I've been angry before. Perhaps not homicidally, definitely not enough so to gun a bunch of strangers down through a windshield. The parts that described the man manipulating his wife made sense? I have limited experience with abusive personality disorders, I've definitely read a whole lot about them. That's all that I really "connected" to. Again, this article was written in a pretty cryptic way. Perhaps another article on a similar topic that wasn't written by freakin' Andy Warhol would do this class some good, it's 8:30 in the morning and a selection of these students are still learning English for God's sake!
3.In all honesty, this writing is almost formatted as a screenplay. It's confusing when written, but i think if i were to be turned into a short film with Bob Dylan playing in the background, it might be relatively successful. For whatever the article is trying to convey, I feel like it would be clearer if it were a film.
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