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Reread the novella with eye toward making it visible. Write in which you pretend you are casting characters for a film you are making of this story: who would you cast in the roles, and why? Emphasize aspects of human behaviors in your character desсrіptions and be as detailed as you can use imagination. Discussion Worksheet One ~ The Ballad of the Sad Café: In his book, Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial, Theodore Ziolkowski1 cites Susan Sontag as saying art “has the capacity to make us nervous or to induce contemplation.” He also quotes Georges Braque who puts it perhaps more succinctly, “It’s the function of art to disturb”(6). Using the ideas put forth in these two statements as your premise, write an in which you discuss how The Ballad of the Sad Café, makes readers nervous, contemplative, and disturbed. Be specific – use examples from the text. Discussion Worksheet Two ~ The Ballad of the Sad Café For each prompt below, discuss HOW the term plays a part in the story for today: Consider not only the definitions provided in lecture, but think also about the idea that perhaps Carson McCullers is playing with these terms: turning classics on their ears. Characters can overlap types: Villain, Hero, Mother, Innocent Youth, Damsel in Distress