STEM-B ACTIVITY WORKSHEET.

Instruction: Write ‘I’ if the given is Intertext and ‘NI’ if not. Write in a 1 whole sheet of paper.

1. Don Bosco crafted Fast City which is about an interactive story presenting a set of
problems and psychological cases put within a technology-obsessed urban space.
2. The Ten Commandments of Marriage was crafted out of The Ten Commandments.
3. The Museum of Adam Kenney offers the experience of being in a museum by providing
each page to each part of the museum and giving the readers instructions as to where
he/she wants to go by providing access to the various portions of the museum.
4. Wicked by Gregory Mcguire came into being because of another story of Frank Baum
which is The Wizard of Oz . The story deals with the Wicked Witch of the West and the
misunderstood protagonist Elphaba.
5. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” These
were the exact words Nelson Mandela said which was quoted by US Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan in an article published in blog.usaid.gov.
6. Martin Luther King’s writing was heavily influenced by the work of Mohandas Gandhi,
especially in the area of nonviolent resistance. Much of this intertextuality was deliberate,
with King explicitly crediting Gandhi as one of his influences. Scholars, however, have
debated whether there might have been other aspects of Gandhi’s writing, such as his
aesthetic style, that also influenced King in a more latent way.
7. Steven Pressfield’s novel The Legend  of Bagger Vance, which was adapted into a movie
starring Will Smith, was originally written as a re-telling of the Hindu epic Bhagavad
Gita – the name “Bagger Vance” is supposed to sound like “Bhagavad.” In the original
Hindu epic, the god Krishna discusses the importance of enlightenment and warrior
virtues with Prince Arjuna – the novel/movie transplants this ancient story onto the links
of a golf course.
8. The actor Christopher Guest appeared in countless comedic movies in the 1980s,
including such classics as The Princess Bride (1987) and This Is Spinal Tap (1984). In
the earlier film, he plays a heavy metal guitarist whose amplifier, as we learn in one
scene, can be turned up to 11 instead of the usual 10. Three years later, he appeared on
screen again playing a man with 6 fingers on his right hand – the character had 11 fingers
instead of 10. Fans have wondered ever since whether this was a deliberate reference
to Spinal Tap or just an accident: deliberate or latent intertextuality?
9. Toni Morrison’s powerful story of post-Civil War African American life has a strong
intertextual relationship to the Bible. One example is the character of Vashti, Stamp
Paid’s wife, who was forced into a relationship with her white owner. This character is an
allusion to Vashti in the book of Esther.
10.  Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is an intertextual work of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane
Eyre as it includes the wife of a secondary character from the novel as one of its own, and
offers an alternative point of view on similar social issues of the prior narrative.