Comparative Essay on the movie, Arrival and Bridget Watson Payne’s How Art Can Make You Happy

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For the written text mentioned in each prompt, direct quotation is a required form of evidence. For the film, you can use both descriptive and quoted evidence. Your essay should include an introduction with a primary comparative claim and several paragraphs that actively connect the texts in question. Be sure that all of the sources your paper discusses are mentioned in the introductory paragraph. Do not use any online or secondary sources. Any instance of plagiarism will receive a zero for the paper (and, as an exam, there is no way to revise once submitted). In Bridget Watson Payne’s How Art Can Make You Happy, she claims that art can give you access to three distinct realities: those of the world, of others, and of ourselves. While the language of the Heptapods in Arrival is a system of communication, it has many of the qualities of art that Payne describes. Explain how Louise’s interaction with the language changes her sense of each of the three realities Payne describes. The movie that you will be comparing Bridget Watson Payne’s How Art Can Make You Happy is called Arrival. This is a link to the IMBD: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/ PLEASE SO NOT USE ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES. THE ONLY SOURCES THAT CAN BE USED IS THE MOVIE AND THE BOOK