...through character, narrative structure, and theme to open our eyes to racism and violence and let us decide what really is doing the right thing. Although this film was distributed by a major Hollywood studio, it still keeps within the styles and techniques of independent cinema. Beginning with the characters in Do The Right Thing, each character is interesting and contributes to the narrative structure of the film. When discussing characters as...
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...Childhood Innocence Irish poet William Butler Yeats once said, “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” There is no truer an example in literature than in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. In the novel the author uses the perspective of the novel’s storyteller, Miss Jean Louise Finch, more commonly known as Scout, and her brother Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, to highlight the blind innocence that comes as a byproduct of childhood. It is this innocence that also disappears from the children’s perspective in the novel. At least at first the two, blinded by their innocence, are unaware of the more mature and even sometimes ominous events and actions that eventually occur in the novel’s unveiling plot. It is because of their unwearied characters that Lee is able to best show how the events that occur in the lives of young characters causes blind innocence to disappear over time. Throughout the novel, there is a constant turn of events that ultimately leaves the children disillusioned with all their preconceived notions of all that is morally just and good. As Yeats said, time indeed proves to be the enemy for the children’s innocence, and by the novel’s end their worldly perspective is irreversibly changed. In the opening of the novel, Jean Louise Finch is revealed to be a grown woman looking back on her youth. The focal point of the narrative in particular is an innocent period from her childhood when she is six years old, just before starting school...
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...Determined by Economy in Wuthering Heights Emile Bronte’s Wuthering Heights embodies an accurate picture of an individual’s psychology determined by the economy. A nineteenth century fiction evokes the photographic resemble of human consciousness obtained by concrete conditions in their world. Getting and keeping economic power is the motive behind all human psychology, including social, economic, political, philosophical and educational activities. Economic conditions, are referred as material circumstances and the psychological atmosphere generated by quantifiable achievement evokes his/her consciousness in the sense that he /she behaves, nurses, and govern their phenomenon according to their concrete prominence. The Bronte’s narrative explores the psychological state of beings launched by the commercial gain, where major characters Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar, Hindly, and Isabella are steered by substantial belongings. Their individual psyche and its root in the family complex distract the relation to each other. The economic system structures, social, familial, and human behavior. It is a ground where every character plays the game of grade to examine their attainment in the society. At one point Marx underscores capitalism (economy) “every family wants to own its own home on its own land” [Tyson: 56]. In other words it promises to gain more and more. Everyone hungers to cultivate their effort in solid gain and prosperity. This really spring the war in...
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...Narrative: The Courageous Theodore Roosevelt waltzed into McGillin’s Olde Ale House in search of good refreshments. He takes a seat at the bar. Roosevelt: (To waiter) I wish to obtain a tall glass of your finest ale please. Grant: (Grant strolls in and takes a seat next to Theodore at the bar) Hello, President Roosevelt. I am Ulysses S. Grant. How are you on this fine day? The weather is fair for such a brutal winter we have endured, would you not agree? Roosevelt: I am doing just marvelous, President. I would surely agree that the weather is mighty fair. What will you have? I will take the charge for your refreshments, my good sir. Grant: Thank you very much. I will be having the same as you. Narrative: Both men are served their tall...
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...Readers are intrigued by danger, suspense and the thrill of a story. In “ The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell the short story proves danger, suspense and thrill add to a story. General Zaroff, character of the famous short story, is a Russian Cossack and expatriate who lives on Ship-Trap Island and enjoys hunting men. Unfortunately, Sanger Rainsford, the main character is getting hunted by General; this is the main conflict. General Zaroff is an aggressive, uncivilized and confident man, Richard Connell proves he is the antagonist of this short narrative. “The Most Dangerous Game” proves General Zaroff is an aggressive individual an example of this proves in the short story: “ When I shot some of his prized turkeys with it, he did not punish me; he complimented me on my marksmanship. I killed my first bear in the...
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...family of Jorie and Jamie. Their father leaves the house and their mother ends up in jail. How and why does it end up with that? Following there will be a focus on how the narrative technique affects the story and further a characterization of the mother. The narrator of the story is the thirteen-year-old girl, Jamie. Jamie used to live in a house with her mom, dad, twin-sister and little brother. Jamie’s twin-sister, Jorie, suffers from mental illnesses like neurological impairment and epilepsy seizures. Jorie’s illnesses cause a lot of problems in the house and family. The story is Jamie’s deposition of the actions that have occurred in the house. The story’s chronology changes a lot throughout the text and switches between flashbacks and present talk, which says a lot about the narrator Jamie, and also that it is a deposition. Lines 1-34 are a flashback, but ll. 34-37 is back to present. In the present talking you can sense the authenticity of Jamie saying: “Can I see my mom now? When can I see my mom?” We get a sense of something have happened to the mother and further that Jamie and the mother are very connected to each other. This sense of that something has happened is very central for the story. First of all by an interpretation of the title, which is deposition. Something has happened and need to be explained. We never really get to know what has happened and that is also a sort of the minimalistic narrative technique with this central unanswered question....
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...on the moors, the setting is very gloomy and dreary. Adjectives such as 'dark' , 'chill', 'strange', and 'uncanny' are just a few of the words that give the tale a mysterious aspect. They help build up suspense and interest for the readers as they are introduced to the scene. As Dr. Watson and Sir Henry travel to Baskerville Hall, they both notice the moor: “but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills” (Doyle 40). This first impression of the moor is further strengthened when the two leave the carriage: “Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end” (Doyle 41). The comparison of the house to a...
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...Nosferatu and German Expressionism Expressionism itself was an artistic movement that occurred in Europe in the early nineteen hundreds. The movement is said to have started around “1908 as a style of painting and the theatre”. The movement spread across Europe but Germany was considered the epicenter of Expressionism, where it was said to be more intense than any other nation in Europe. The Expressionist style was essentially a rejection of realism. In painting, artists would not use the clever shading techniques, for example, to make the subject look real, like painters at the time had been doing for so long. They might use brighter or darker colors and make people look distorted and often creepy and grotesque. “In late February 1920, a film premiered in Berlin that was instantly recognized as something new in cinema: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. Although Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene, was considered the first Expressionist film and would spark a massive movement in the film industry, it did not come as much of a shock to a lot of film critics since the movement was already so prevalent in other art forms. Nonetheless, many more film makers followed suit in making movies that featured the Expressionist style. One such movie was Nosferatu. Made in 1922 and directed by F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu was for all intents and purposes a horror film. The protagonist, Hutter, who works for a real estate company, is sent to the mysterious estate of a potentially huge...
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...Cheyenne Fry Ms. Yandell ENGL 1113 Narrative Essay How My Childhood Abuse Made Me Better My biological mother was a very abusive person to me and my little brother. Although he being an infant when he was around her, I was a toddler. She and my dad got a divorce due to her cheating. While the divorce process dragged on she had visitation rights every other weekend, even after the divorce was final. Thankfully my dad had gotten custody of us because at that time I communicated with him telling him what was going on. I will not call her mother because she is not my mother. I will call her by her name…Carol. Carol had visitation rights of my brother and I. Every other weekend we would go to her house in Poteau. She lived by the cracker...
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...of his county from his perspective as an active participant as well as an observer. From determining his mother's age to joining in the struggle to free an innocent man, Dr. Falola's journey growing up in Nigeria embodies the rich, diverse history that defines Africa. The opening of the novel places the reader not in Falola's shoes as a child, but rather as an adult scholar attempting to procure information from his own family. This proves easier said than done as Falola takes us through the process of obtaining specific dates in a society that deems them irrelevant. By examining the difficulty that Falola has in this seemingly simple task, the reader begins to understand the way in which time and space are intertwined and weighed in Africa. This concept of "connections between words, space, and rituals" encompasses the way that Africans perceive the world around them - as a series of interrelated events rather than specific instances in time (Falola 224). This approach also stems from the concept that the family unit, the village, and the elders come before the individual in all instances, making a detail such as a birthday unimportant when it comes to the welfare of the whole. Introducing the reader to the complexities of African conventions, Falola expands their minds and challenges them to view the forthcoming narrative with untainted eyes. The structure of the memoir immerses the reader in African culture by incorporating anecdotes, poems, proverbs, and songs. These elements...
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...Japan Eternal Storehouse and Love Suicides at Sonezaki are two different types of story, Japan Eternal Storehouse is a narrative, and Love Suicides at Sonezaki is a puppet play. Although two story take place in a completely different artistic expression, they represent merchant values at Edo merchant society. The merchant values can be listed as follow. The Japan Eternal Storehouse showed significant merchant values. To start with, "In the past, on Credit, Now Cash Down" is a story of trading cloth. They are many cloth merchants trade cloth with court, but they loss of all the money by use credit transactions. A man called Mitsui Kuroemon open a new shop, and his policy was to sell everything for cash. Mitsui has great talent in the business,...
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...‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ is structured as a series of sequential diary entries, with each chapter offering a new and worthwhile moment of discovery. Coupled with the inclusion of hindsight and reflection functions as a narrative technique that helps to highlight the self-discovery made on the journey. Through the text’s subtitle ‘Notes on a Latin American Journey’ and Guevera’s acknowledgement of his limitations ‘This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic’ allows the relationship between the composer and the reader to be truthful and open from the beginning. The catalyst for Che’s discovery is the tyranny and arrangement of his ‘bitch of life’ that was ‘jaded with medical school, hospitals and exams’. This self-description embodied in his figurative language explains what Che was like prior to his self-discovery. He describes how he was quite naive before the journey which was largely based on ‘improvisation’. The title of the second diary entry ‘forewarnings’ and his reflective tone of ‘the enormity of our endeavour escaped us in those moments; all we could...
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...experience. This shows how crucial narrators are to creating the atmosphere of a story. Through each of these we can witness the power of the narrator and what they are responsible for in a story. Furthermore realizing the “function of the storyteller” helps us to also understand the main themes for a second story, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. The Zebra Storyteller can have two different narrators. It can be a third person narrative about a cocky Siamese cat trying to be a lion, a story that is told by an outsider to the plot. A fable about pretending to be something you’re not and letting it lead to your demise. The narrator could also be the Zebra Storyteller himself who only appears later in the text. When attributing him the narrator view we can see a time shift in the story. One where we are given a background of a Siamese cat and how one day a zebra storyteller came up with that same story later on. Given this point of view we see that the zebra’s story that he made up that day may have saved himself, or he may have possibly killed an innocent talking cat. Thereby changing the meaning of the story, no longer is it a tale of a Siamese cat’s trickery gone awry it is now about a storyteller creating a story that ended up creating actions. Showing how the stories we create have deeper meaning than to...
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...This essay will use the mythological criticism approach to compare two stories, “A Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, and “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner by showing that both stories have similar archetypes embedded within their narratives. By definition and according to our text, archetypes are “characters, images and themes that symbolically embody meanings and experiences,” (2059, Meyer). In both of these stories, I see that the main characters are involved in a quest for feminine self-discovery and freedom of the human spirit. In Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” the author discusses the journey we are called to in life, and that some choose to follow that call while others do not. In this case, both female characters choose not to answer the call, and become trapped in their initial wounding. The both feel they have no power to move out of their current state. In Carol Pearson’s book, “The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By,” six major archetypes are discussed. They include the orphan, the innocent, the magician, the wanderer, the warrior and the altruist. All of these archetypes can also have shadow sides, as described by author Pearson. In my opinion, the archetype that best fits Mrs. Mallard, the main character of “A Story of an Hour,” by Chopin and Miss Emily Grierson, the main character of “A Rose for Miss Emily,” by Faulkner, is the orphan archetype and its shadow side. Mrs. Mallard is a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage...
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...is most commonly used to show the setting of the movie. But if used correctly can be used to portray the feelings of the characters and to help tell the story. Orson Welles made sure to use the props, actors, and even the camera to use mise-en-scene to tell the story of Charles Foster Kane to its fullest. Character positions, camera angles and music, and framing used to tell the story in Citizen Kane. It’s use of mise-en-scene made it not only ahead of its time, but it made it a masterpiece. Citizen Kane uses mise-en-scene is multiple scenes to help tell the narrative. A perfect example is when the parents of the Charles Kane are speaking with Walter Thatcher in the house. As Kane’s parents are discussing giving Kane over to Thatcher, we see Kane as a boy playing in the snow through the window. This scene represents the innocence that is stolen from him in this exact moment. When he was a child he was pure and innocent and naïve, but we never see him like this again after he is taken and brought up by Thatcher. The boy stays in the middle of the frame the whole scene making this part one of the most import scenes in the movie. As the live changing scene goes on we just watch as Kane plays in innocence, completely oblivious to what is going on in his home. The entire movie is affected by this one scene and links to his dying word, rosebud. This is the sled that he was playing with during that important scene. Without this scene we would not know the importance of the sled at...
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