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 Write an essay in which you address the larger questions of our course: What makes writing (or reading) matter in a world of “violence, suicide, war, and terrorism, as well as fraudulence, complicity, and trauma?” (444). What makes writing move beyond “the mundane, personal tragedies that mark any individual life” to say something significant about “the history, the culture, and the institutions to surround us all”?  Like Miller, you will need to work from two or three detailed examples, one of which must be Susan Zalkind’s work in “The Murders Before the Marathon.”  Would you say Zalkind’s writing “matters”? What can you point to in her essay that can help you argue your position on that question? You can draw materials from other texts from the course, so long as a major section of your paper addresses the Zalkind essay. But note: the focus of this assignment is on what makes writing, and reading, matter