LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA II.2: DESDE 1945 HASTA EL PRESENTE CONVOCATORIA DE JUNIO, CURSO 2021/2022 TIEMPO: 2 HORAS — NINGUN MATERIAL. INSTRUCCIONES: En 1a primera parte de este examen, elija una de las dos preguntas que se le plantean y conteste en no més de 350 palabras (maximo de 4 puntos). En la segunda parte clabore un comentario sobre cada uno de los dos textos a partir de las preguntas que se proponen como gufa (méximo de 3 puntos por cada comentario), en no més de 200 palabras cada uno. Para ambas partes, responda en inglés y numere sus respuestas. NTREGUE EL ENUNCIADO DE ESTE EXAMEN PART ONE: Choose ONE of the following questions and write an essay on it (up to 350 words): 4. Discuss the failures of the American dream in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” and compare the protagonists of both works in relation to that theme. 2. Explain the use of orality in Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek” and the idea of the border. PART TWO: Comment upon BOTH excerpts (up to 200 words for each one). Make sure to comment upon the specific fragments and to answer the questions. General summaries of the works will not be considered. 1. Identify the author and title of the work where the following excerpt belongs. Comment upon the reference to being safe and the idea of “perfect” and contextualize it in relation to US. society at large. Today he didn’t need the medication because he was safe in the yard, because she'd fixed it so perfect. He was out there pract them at the tree. He looked up and saw her and did the thing where he blew a kiss. Sweet little man, Now alll she had to worry about was the pup. 1g Pitching by filling his Yankees helmet with pebbles and winging 2. Identify the author and title of the work where the following excerpt belongs. Discuss the reference to the children playing and the importance of childhood and innocence for the protagonist and narrator. ‘Anyway. [keep picturing all these litle kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all Thousands of fittle kids, and nobody's arouné—nobody big, Im spt me, And f'm standing (on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, [ have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-—1 mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going [ have to come out from and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the eatcher in the rye and all. E know it’s crazy, but that's the only thing Fd really like to be. [know its crazy.