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Writing Assignment #2: Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace

Length: 1 page, plus a bibliography on a second page

Why do you think David Foster Wallace chose to end his story the way he did? Does the ending feel

anticlimactic? Why or why not?

Remember, we are practicing using Parenthetical Citation (refer to the handout), and be sure to include

a Works Cited at the end of your essay, on a new page. The bibliographic information for the story we

read is as follows:

Wallace, David Foster. “Incarnations of Burned Children.” Oblivion. New York: Back Bay Books, 2004.

Print.

Writing Assignment #2: Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace

Length: 1 page, plus a bibliography on a second page

Why do you think David Foster Wallace chose to end his story the way he did? Does the ending feel

anticlimactic? Why or why not?

Remember, we are practicing using Parenthetical Citation (refer to the handout), and be sure to include

a Works Cited at the end of your essay, on a new page. The bibliographic information for the story we

read is as follows:

Wallace, David Foster. “Incarnations of Burned Children.” Oblivion. New York: Back Bay Books, 2004.

Print.