Assignment for Bartleby, the Scrivener
Directions: After reading the story, you are going to construct a creative, modern day version of this story but keeping the same symbols and theme from the original. This is a creative writing piece so you will need to set the stage and develop your characters just like in a short story.
Steps:
1. Read the story
2. Choose a modern day work setting for your story to take place.
3. Then produce a creative, modern day story that mimics the original tale.
4. In your story, you must include the original symbols from the story and what they represent.
5. You must also portray the same theme that the original story tried to convey.
6. Your story must be at least a page in length typed or two pages hand-written.
7. Be creative and include lots of figurative language, imagery and narrative aspects.