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answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

answer:

a and b although my birthday is january 16 lol

explanation:

painic-stricken, handle business, not a joke, yeah

manners missing, travel different, no control, yeah

time to listen, time to zip it, keep it closed

my description, highly gifted, take some notes, yeah

lack of interest, why'd you visit? hit the road, yeah

i'm kinda twisted, so keep your distance, be a ghost

yeah, see i'm inventive, but quite the menace, you ain't know?

well then i'm offended, let's jog your memories, here we go, yeah

i went from nobody to kinda famous

hide my plaques inside the closet, i just can't explain it

my wife, she tells me that she's proud and thinks that i should hang 'em

but i just leave 'em on the ground right next to my self-hatred

yeah, yeah, mental health, where's my mental health?

diagnosed with ocd, what does that mean? well, gather 'round

that means i obsessively obsess on things i think about

that means i might take a normal thought and think it's so profound (leave me alone)

ruminating, fill balloons up full of doubt