Blog Assignment #5: Representing Others

For this assignment, you should respond to both Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others and Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), placing them into conversation with one another.

You should write one academic-style paragraph in which you make a claim about the topic we have been covering this week (representing "The Other") and use Sontag's book and Eastwood's film to expand your claim.

Remember: Make connections between the two texts and make sure your claim is broad enough to encompass everything you discuss in your paragraph. Also, give enough background about the quote you use and the scene/image you chose to discuss so that your reader understands what you are talking about.

Requirements: 300 words minimum. Use one direct quote from Sontag's book and discuss either a scene from the film or the film in general terms. Due Friday October 1 by 5:00 pm.