For this assignment, we are going to try to be more creative–and to learn some basic literary terms! [By the way, this assignment is also explained in the handout on “First Assignments…]

Please find “the photo”–it’s on BB and in the PRINT packet. For this “prep,” please create a “scene” or two based on this photo. This is an assignment that allows for a lot of imagination as you create narrators, dialogues, characters, sequences, settings, and so on!

This “prep” can become a good place to experiment a bit. And if the experiment “works,” you can and should use this for Paper #2!

I expect one or two “scenes.” They need to be posted on BB before midnight on TUESDAY, MARCH 23rd
. I expect that the post will be at least 300 words long (how that adds up depends on how you create your “scenes”). It is worth 4 points (all-or-nothing). As always, you can send me questions and notes via email as we go along.

It was the year 1987 in Brooklyn and the mafia lived casually in downtown Brooklyn. They had all types of businesses throughout the main streets and side streets throughout the surrounding neighbor hoods and theirs. There were bakeries, flower shops, delis, restaurants, all different businesses run or protected by the mafia. On this particular day when the photo was captured, it was a family wedding. The man in the photo, his niece had just married a son from another family joining the two family organizations as one. After the ceremony was finished everyone started to party, chat, and were having a blast. That’s when Vincent, the god father of the Grotti family, saw his lawyer approaching him. He knew that he told his lawyer that he would be attending his niece’s wedding this day, so he was surprised when he saw him walking towards him. He asked his son, to wheel him towards their lawyer who had a paper document in hand. As his son wheeled Vincent towards the lawyer he told his son, “make sure to stay close, listen and make sure no one else can see the document.” As Vincent and his son met with the lawyer, they noticed that his demeanor quickly changed after their greetings ended. He showed Vincent the documents, which were copies of warrants that were placed on him and the key players in his organization. That is when his son leaned over to have a closer look at the documents. They all noticed at the same time and knew right away that this was information should not get out to the wrong people on the day of his nieces wedding. Vincent and his son are both angered by the warrants they had just read, but know they can not react or show anger, since both his and his nieces grooms’ family is around. That is when Vincent noticed the wedding photographer taking a picture of him and gave him a stern face. The photographer knew the face right away and moved on after apologizing. Vincent, his son, and the lawyer all contemplate on how to take the warrants at hand, as they continue to enjoy the party the best they can, with the knowledge they now know.