Writing Homework Help

CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College Nothing by Ocean Response

 

I’m studying and need help with a Article Writing question to help me learn.

Please write a minimum of one full page in response to the work by Ocean Vuong. Your response should be organized and thoughtful, but it doesn’t need to be a formal essay with a thesis.

Choose one:
1. What is the “nothing” that the title refers to? Do you think this is “nothing?” Why or why not?
2. What are the connections Vuong makes between the people he writes about? What do they have in common? Be specific: show me something through quoting.
3. What feeling do you get from this work, and what creates that feeling? Again, be specific and quote.
4. What would you call this work (poem, story, play) and why? What qualities of the genre does this have, and what is its purpose/point in your understanding?