...Kevin Rojano Mr. Belasco AP Literature 17 September 2015 Three Girls Plot Analysis The plot in “Three Girls” was very misleading. The narrator told a story of her and her friend’s encounter with Marilyn Monroe. What the story was really about, was the narrator's first kiss with her friend. This twist ending was an eye opener for the rest of the passage, as hidden clues became obvious signs. There were many clue pointing towards the twist ending that were identified after the plot had developed. We were lead to believe that it was story about how they have encountered Marilyn Monroe in their favorite bookstore. The significance of Marilyn to the real plot was that she was something that the two girls could bond over. Marilyn was their “thing” and they did not not want anyone else in on it. Scattered along the path of stalking and helping Marilyn, the narrator speaks affectionately about her friend. She comments on her body shape and monkey nimbleness which before seemed like meaningless comments. There were other clues like the use of “enchanted” several times to properly set the mood for the story. The way the plot and ending came together helped understand these clues. The surprise ending in “Three Girls” tied the entire passage together. It helped me understand that the story was one of a first kiss. The flashback transformed from a celebrity encounter to a romantic experience. It was a cute memory but it made sense of the “persevering author and married with kids”...
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...ANALYTICAL PLOTS FOR ANALYSING CONING & CHANNELING IN DIFFERENT RESERVOIRS OF UPPER INDUS BASIN OF PAKISTAN Muhammad Osama Jafri (NED University), Hafiz Haleem ud Din Farooqi (NED University), Waleed Anwar Saleem (NED University) Abstract Water and gas drive mechanisms pose different problems for a petroleum engineer. The most common tribulations encountered are water and gas coning, high permeability layer breakthrough and near wellbore water channeling. In order to identify and differentiate between these tribulations different techniques can be applied. In this extended abstract, the characteristic trends of log-log plots of WOR (Water Oil Ratio) vs. Time will be analyzed for different mechanisms on the basis of proposed techniques by K.S. Chan (SPE Paper No. 30775). The derivatives of the plots show different trends for coning and channeling which makes it easier to interpret the situation. The identification of the problems will contribute to optimize water/gas coning treatments and other encountered problems. This technique has been applied on the wells of Upper Indus Basin (Potwar region) of Pakistan for the identification of coning or channeling in the wells. Introduction In a hydrocarbon reservoir, water is the most abundant fluid existing in the pores with the oil and as a separate phase in an aquifer. Broadly, the produced water can be classified as good water and bad water. Good water is the water which sweeps or displaces the oil and is produced within the economic...
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...How To Create A Plot Outline I'll describe each of the eight elements in turn. If you already have an idea for a novel you're working on, open your file or get a pad of paper or your writer's notebook. As you read through the rest of this page, jot down ideas for how each element might work in your story. At the end, I'll show you how to use your choices to create a brief, well-rounded plot outline for your novel. If you don't have an idea for a novel yet, just grab one from your imagination. It doesn't have to be good. It's just an exercise after all. On the other hand, if you already have a draft for a novel, that you're looking to revise, then ask yourself, as we go through these elements, whether you have included them in your story. Create a plot outline for your novel in the way suggested below. You may find you can strengthen your novel plot considerably by incorporating any plot element you neglected before. 1. Story Goal The first element to include in your plot outline is the Story Goal, which we covered in detail in the previous article, The Key to a Solid Plot: Choosing a Story Goal. To summarize, the plot of any story is a sequence of events that revolve around an attempt to solve a problem or attain a goal. The Story Goal is, generally speaking, what your protagonist wants to achieve or the problem he/she wants to resolve. It is also the goal/problem that involves or affects most, if not all the other characters in the story. It is “what the story...
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...Aristotle plot structure developed the four elements use to create events in the story. It tells the reader captivating and visualizations of what goes on in the overall story. What makes plot appealing is not what happen in the story but why did it happen.1 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopkin uses the four basic elements. Writer uses the four components to create pieces of the stories to captivate the reader’s attention. The four elements are exposition, complication, climax, and resolution. Using “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopkin, is a prime example of the four elements that is use to create the plot of the story. The first element of plot structure is exposition. “The exposition is the information needed to understand the story”. 1 In the beginning of the story the protagonist, Mrs. Louise Mallard was known for her heart problem. Josephine her sister and Richard, who is Mrs. Mallard’s husband friend did not know how to break the news to Mrs. Mallard that her husband is dead. It was stated in the newspaper that Mr. Brently Mallard’s name was listed in the railroad disaster. The exposition gives the great detail of the story. When there is exposition there is complication that introduces the problem of the story. Complication is the second element of plot structure. “The complication is the catalyst that begins the major conflict”.1 After Mrs. Mallard was told that her husband is dead; she weeps in an instance and ran into her room. She wanted to be left alone trying...
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...Literary Element: Plot Title: A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) Plot and A Rose for Emily I thought that A Rose for Emily was a very strange story that had an interesting plot. The story was told from an outside perspective that was somewhat apathetic. This allowed the plot to develop around the strange old woman, Emily. Emily was sort of an outcast of the town and put herself into isolation inside of her house. The story was interesting in how it used the in media res style of writing to start. The beginning with the funeral of Emily gave the reader’s an immediate feeling of remorse and grief. William Faulkner further told of Emily’s life and how she became so secluded from her townspeople. The way that the author described the strange events that happened throughout Emily’s life made them really stand out as critical points that influenced Emily in her process of becoming secluded from the townspeople. I really enjoyed how the author subtly provided these insights into the development of Emily without blatantly pointing them out as key events. They allow the reader to understand her better and somewhat understand what she’s been through and why she is who she is. The story starts in media res as it opens with Emily’s death, and then it switches to flashback as it flashes back to important events in Emily’s life. The theme of death is prevalent because the opening paragraph is about Emily’s funeral and how everyone was in attendance. In addition, the plot is developed...
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...MEDA14099G - HANDOUT UNDERSTANDING PLOT AND STORY IN CINEMA There is a lot of information available on plot and story, but most of it will only confuse the basic understanding of these terms we are trying to achieve. A lot of this information is useful as we start to think about film in greater depth, but in this course I simply want you to begin by learning these two definitions. PLOT: The “plot” of a film is what you see in the order that you see it. It is the sequence of events (occurrences, character actions, decisions, etc.) as it unfolds onscreen. The plot is the way a film tells its story, and the final shape a plot will take is completely up to the filmmaker, who decides what event will follow what event during editing. Plot does not need to be chronological, meaning it does not need to unfold in the same manner as the story it tells. STORY: The “story” is the full story told by a film in its precise chronological order. This means, importantly, that the story can include events we do not see on the screen, or that we only here characters make mention of. However, no matter what events the story does include, it necessarily occurs in proper chronological sequence, just like in the real worlds, where we have to experience events as they unfold, and where we cannot jump around in time focusing on that which we want to. Both “plot” and “story” are part of the narrative of a film. Remember, our basic definition of narrative is a sequence of events occurring...
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...The Author vs. The Reader My Experience Trying to Get Ahead of Ernest Cline’s Plot Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One gives its reader plenty of hints and foreshadowing events that nearly gives the reader full power to always be one step ahead of the plot. Throughout my experience, I was in constant battle with Cline to see if i could prove myself in a sense where either I could predict exactly what was to happen based off of what he fed me, I could not predict anything and simply let him lead me through the plot, or I thought I was getting ahead of him but he had just led me to a dead end to potentially mask another plot twist. The Wins On multiple occasions, I was able to predict the way in which the Cline would eventually take his plot. Right from Cline’s introductions and depictions in the third chapter of the novel, I easily identified that Aech would be a major ally for Wade throughout the book while I-r0k would take an antagonist role in the novel. Consequently, it came to me as no surprise when I-r0k finally turned on them and attempted to blackmail Wade in the thirteenth chapter. In between those two points in the story, I also succeeded in predicting how Morrow and Halliday had a falling out, as Cline disclosed on page 121. Back on page 55, Cline had portrayed Morrow and Halliday’s relationship as if they had...
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...The Plot and Theme in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” Raymond Carver states that by the mid-1960s he was tired of reading and writing “long narrative fiction” (“On Writing” 46). Shorter fiction, he found, was more immediate. This mode of thought may help us to understand why Carver turned to compose shorter works of fiction like “Cathedral,” a work that acts as a brief glance into how one man’s physical blindness helps another man begin to overcome his own spiritual blindness. Carver’s thematic plots could convey alternate meaning—both directly and indirectly. “Cathedral” introduces the theme of blindness, shown by “this blind man” (Carver 709), but concludes by addressing the deeper theme of internal or spiritual blindness by the host. Therefore, the plot and theme of “Cathedral” relay simultaneous levels of meaning to the reader. “Cathedral” tells a story of an irreligious man, who learns a spiritual lesson from a blind man: “But I had my eyes closed. I thought I’d keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do” (Carver 718). That’s why at the end of the story he does not open his eyes for he wants to “keep them that way for a little longer” so that he can see clearly in his mind. There are two types of blindness, but when we talk about blindness, we usually think of the blindness on our physical body rather than the blindness in our mind. In “Cathedral” both Robert and the host are blind: one is blind in external sight, and the other one is...
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...book that well deserves the designation of “one of the most timeless and classical books ever written.” I. Paterson’s plot is a progressive sequence of events, mixed with several different conflicts and rise and fall action. II. Endearing friendship is the primary and explicit theme of Bridge to Terabithia. III. Paterson’s writing style genuinely enhances the story as she makes use of a third-person limited point of view, figurative language, a colloquial and understated tone and an Appalachian dialect for a realistic effect. Katherine Paterson’s, 1977 award winning novel, Bridge to Terabithia, is a deeply moving, imagination-sparking tale. This young adult fiction novel takes place in a magical kingdom that was created out of the minds of the two unforgettable child protagonists, Jess and Leslie. Through Paterson’s use of literary elements such as: plot, theme, and style, the reader comes to understand and marvel at the benevolence and devotion of youthful friendship, and the power and magic of the imagination. Bridge to Terabithia is a commendable, heartwarming, eloquently written book that well deserves the designation of “one of the most timeless and classical books ever written.” Paterson’s plot is a progressive sequence of events, mixed with several different conflicts and rise and fall action. Bridge to Terabithia’s plot begins its rise with a person vs. society conflict as Jess and Leslie quickly become best friends while trying to deal with...
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...1.)According to the textbook and the Plot PowerPoint it discusses how plot is a sequence of events, which will show characters in a conflict (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 141 and Plot PowerPoint Slide 2). The sequence of these events is not chosen accidentally, they are chosen by the author because they are seen as the best way of telling the story (Lukens, Smith, and Coffel 141 and Plot PowerPoint Slide 2). According to the textbook it states, According to the Plot PowerPoint it states, The Plot PowerPoint discussed how chronological order is the most commonly used for children’s literature to show the audience the order in which all of the events of the story are related to one another (Plot PowerPoint Slide 5). The concept that I have chosen from the textbook is foreshadowing, which according to the Plot PowerPoint are...
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...Correlations & Scatterplots Paper Introduction The purpose of this paper is to determine if there is a relationship between age and several different activities performed by respondents that participated in a survey conducted by the Statistics class of spring 2010 at the Community College of Philadelphia. Age was the dependent variable I chose. The ages of the respondents ranged from 13 to 80. The survey consisted of 329 respondents. The variables I chose to evaluate were: (1) Hours spent on the internet; (2) Hours spent watching television; (3) Hours spent talking on cell phones; (4) Number of cigarettes smoked daily. I chose each of the independent variables because I was curious to see if there would be a relationship between the dependent variable “age” and each of the independent variables. I suspect that age will play a major factor in each of the variables chosen. Using the Data Analysis Tool in Excel will help me determine if my speculations are correct or incorrect. Speculations I expect that the amount of time spent on the internet would decrease as the age increases. It seems to me; the younger you are the more reason you have to use the internet, for example: for school, for social sites, and just because it seems that this is what most young people do today. I would expect that the amount of time watching television would increase as age increases because younger people tend to spend more time with other activities such as sports as opposed to older...
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...Plot summary Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the "Union") and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal. A dispute over states' rights has arisen[10] involving enslaved African people who were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South. The story opens in April 1861 at the "Tara" plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O'Haras. The reader is told Scarlett O'Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O'Hara, "was not beautiful, but"[11] had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them. It is the day before the men are called to war, Fort Sumter having been fired on two days earlier. There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish. Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. She is stricken at heart. The following day at...
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...[pic] Body, Mind and Death Michael Lacewing Setting the scene Many people think of the afterlife as an existence without their bodies – just their minds, somehow. But there has always been a strong traditional of bodily resurrection; and it is becoming increasingly popular in philosophy of religion. Theories of the resurrection of the body are theories about whether I survive the death of my body in any way. It is not enough that my body is resurrected – I need to be resurrected, to continue existing as my body. Theories of the resurrection of the body, then, usually presuppose two further philosophical theories: materialism and a particular theory of personal identity. Materialism Materialism is the theory that the only substance is matter. A substance is something that can exist independently of anything else. Materialism denies that we have souls that can exist independently of our bodies. And so, if there is life after death, we must exist as material objects, as bodies. Because matter is the only substance, everything that exists must exist as a material object. And all properties, e.g. having a mind, must be properties of something that is material. Two theories of personal identity Even if I can only exist if I have a body, this doesn’t mean that I can only exist in this body. Just as a piece of computer software can be copied from one computer to another, perhaps I can exist in different bodies. On this theory, what makes me me is not what body...
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...Name __________________________________ Period _______ Plot: Freytag’s Pyramid Gustav Freytag was a Nineteenth Century German novelist who saw common patterns in the plots of stories and novels and developed a diagram to analyze them. He diagrammed a story's plot using a pyramid like the one shown. [pic] Freytag's Pyramid: The Breakdown 1. Exposition: setting the scene. The writer introduces the characters and setting, providing description and background. 2. Inciting Incident: something happens to begin the action. A single event usually signals the beginning of the main conflict. The inciting incident is sometimes called 'the complication'. 3. Rising Action: the story builds and gets more exciting. 4. Climax: the moment of greatest tension in a story. This is often the most exciting event. It is the event that the rising action builds up to and that the falling action follows. 5. Falling Action: events happen as a result of the climax and we know that the story will soon end. 6. Resolution: the character solves the main problem/conflict or someone solves it for him or her. 7. Dénouement: (a French term, pronounced: day-noo-moh) the ending. At this point, any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries which remain after the resolution are solved by the characters or explained by the author. Sometimes the author leaves us to think about the THEME or future possibilities for the characters. You can think of the dénouement as the opposite of the exposition:...
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...Running Head: JUSTICE 1 Seeking Justice: A Film Critique Paul J Baker Jr 11-26-12 ENG 225 Instructor: Hope Umansky Justice 2 A film is a marvelous piece of art to the one who creates it. The story and plot that is told can have some profound meanings and sometimes portray things that we wish would happen. Actors come and go but sometimes they reach the level of a star. Nicholas Cage is one such star. We remember his past works in movies like Faceoff, Gone in 60 Seconds, and National Treasure. These films show this actor as an action star. You can never know if the character he is playing is going to be good or bad. However in recent years critics have stated that Cage has been lost. Performing in movies like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice has appeared that Cage was searching for something. They have wrote him off as the action star that he was but in a triumphant return in 2011, the movie Seeking Justice showed that Cage is still who we remember. This movie, because of its actors, plot, cinemaphotography, and direction bring back the action thrillers that we have been longing for. Seeking Justice is one of the best films made in 2011. “The screenplay has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is the mind of someone who wants nothing more than to tell a story. After all, without a story, Indiana Jones doesn’t recover the Ark of the Covenant, E.T. never phones home, and Batman never catches the Joker. Every movie, from the biggest, loudest...
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