Week 4 Critical Response: Philip Vera Cruz
Focus on TWO of the discussion questions below. Find evidence from the text in the form of quotes and summaries and key words to explain your analysis and evaluation of the text. Explain how your two questions are related.
4.How does Vera Cruz come to understand the American Dream through nature? How does Vera Cruz describe the influence of U.S. colonialism in his life and his relationship to the environment, both in the Philippines and in the U.S. How does this relate to his journalistic/fact-based style of writing?
- Working in the fields results in an entirely different relationship to “nature” than vacationing in it. How does the brutality of Vera Cruz’s work illustrate class domination to be alienating even in nature? What is the difference between Muir’s “sublime” and Vera Cruz’s emphasis on “survival”? How does this relate to his journalistic/fact-based style of writing?
Post your 300-word analysis in paragraph form and citing quotes and specific locations in the text
