Extra Credit (due Halloween)

Please pick from the following.  No more than 2 submissions, up to 3 points each.  Read / watch each, write a 1-2 page summary and 1-2 page detailed explanation of how the book/film/play relates to class (be specific).  The connections might be to the human nature aspect and/or the death & dying aspect of the class. Feel free to be creative.

1. Read the play Waiting for Godot or Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead.  Summarize & connect to class.
2. Death and the Civil War PBS documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/death/?flavour=full.  Summarize & connect to class.
3. Simone de Beauvoir's reflections about her mother's death, "A Very Easy Death".  Summarize & connect to class.
4.  Watch the French film, Intouchables, by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano
Based on a true story, Intouchables recounts with humor the story of an unlikely friendship between Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, a rich aristocrat who becomes a quadriplegic after a paragliding accident (François Cluzet), and his domestic aide, a young black man from the suburbs who has just come out of jail (Omar Sy). 
Summarize & connect to class.
5. Watch the Buddhist film Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy.  Summarize & connect to class.