Film and Literature Comparative ISP

Choose your ISP Topic below. For that topic, you must choose one corresponding film and one corresponding novel from the list below. You will then work towards completing a comparative analysis of the two chosen works. The steps of the ISP are as follows:

U1A5 – Statement of Intent/ISP Proposal
U2A6 – ISP Progress Report #1 (here you will review your ISP novel) U4A1 – ISP Annotated Bibliography
U5A1 – ISP Progress Report #2 (here you will review your ISP film) U5A2 – ISP Thesis/Outline
U5A4 – Final ISP Essay

ISP TOPICS
FILM CHOICES
NOVEL CHOICES
Personal Liberation/Redemption
Gran Torino
Rocky Balboa
Albert Camus, The Outsider
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Jane Urqhart, The Stone Carvers
John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Gray
Roberston Davis, Fifth Business
Walter Lamb, She’s Come Undone

Destructive Nature of Dreams
American Gangster
There Will Be Blood
Brian Moore, The Passion of Judith Hearne
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck, The Pearl
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Mordechai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Utopia/Direction of the Future
Children of Men
The Road
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
George Orwell, 1984
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood, A Handmaid’s Tale
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Journey Motif
Rain Man
Motorcycle Diaries
A. Manette Ansay, Vingear Hill
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
John Steinbeck, The Pearl
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Marina Nemat, The Prisoner of Tehran
Paolo Coehlo, The Alchemist
Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Destructive Nature of War
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Denis Brock, The Ash Garden
Elie Wiesel, Night
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
Joseph Keller, Catch-22
Joy Kogawa, Obasan
Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
Timothy Findley, The Wars

Non-Conformist Hero
Juno
Iron Man
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
J. D, Salinger, The Catcher in The Rye
John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Immigrant Experience
Lost in Translation
In America
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
Joy Kowaga, Obasan
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners
Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
Mistry Rohinton, A Fine Balance
Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints

Role of Women
Revolutionary Road
An Education
Alice Walker, The Colour Purple
Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
Anne Marie MacDonald, Fall On Your Knees
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone