The Elaborate Satire Of The American Dreamscape

The Elaborate Satire Of The American Dreamscape

Book–The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz · 2011(https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elaborate_Entrance_of_Chad_Deity/LxgfEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=overview)

What your essay must do:
Develop a thesis claim that declares winners and losers, explains your reasoning, and states what particular critique the play reveals.
Provide an introduction that effectively delivers the audience to the thesis, providing the title, author’s name, the year of its publication, a brief summary of the play introducing the main characters, and a sentence or two setting up the central issue of your essay: the thesis.
Integrate 8-10 correctly formatted, fully introduced, and fully analyzed quotations
This is a comparison and contrast essay; develop an appropriate organizational strategy and make effective transitions
Provide close reading and textual analysis to support your points
Demonstrate effective PIE paragraphing (according to handout)
Use MLA style for citations

In the context of EKO’s villainy in the play, which of the three wrestlers, in your view, is the ultimate winner (a success) and which are the losers (failures), explaining why specifically they, in the end, have succeeded or failed? What PARTICULAR critique of the American Dream and/or American society and culture does this analysis reveal? In your conclusion, explain what you think Diaz suggests real success is.

What does the ring represent in Diaz’s play?
Who (and what) do each of these characters represent in the ring and in the world (our world) that Diaz is representing? Be specific. Name names as examples.
Chad/Darnell Deity?
Macedonio Guerra/Mace
Vigneswar Paduar/VP
Old Glory, etc.
Edward K. Olsen/EKO
In the context of EKOs villainy, while ______ and, to an even greater degree, _____ are _[winners or losers]_______ because they ___________, ________is the only real _[winner or loser]____ because he _____________. In his satire, Diaz critiques ____________, exposing it as ______________________.

Diaz’s targets?
Our stupid belief in the American Dream
Our stupid belief in the notion that the underdog really has a shot
Our obsession with fame as ideal
Our adoration of celebrities
Our belief that individual success is more important than a just society
Our materialism
Blind patriotism or jingoism
Our worship of CEOs as heroes
Capitalism
Our hypocrisy
Systemic racism
Our belief that rejecting a corrupt system without working to change it is enough
That TV is a good place to learn what success is
The cult of masculinity
Tokenism