Genre is a way of classifying and then categorising a particular text, they are made up of their own codes and conventions for example narrative, characters and themes which standardise the way in which a story is told. In T.V and Film these are often subverted to produce hybrid genres or to give a social realist aesthetic. This is explicitly obvious within the Crime genre. Although the genre progresses in a linear fashion, it often relishes upon nostalgia and gritty realism to attract the audience
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1 Look at the actors and form opinions about whether you believe the character. Also determine if they are genuinely portraying the character in the right era and setting for the play. This is especially important for period pieces. Pay attention to their mannerisms and determine if they are set in the right era and not too modern. 2 Listen to inflection. Many actors will have the natural ability to emphasize and inflect the right words in their lines. When you critique acting, listen to those
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way an author presents and develops a character to make them believable. This essay will focus on three believable characters. One of the believable characters is Ralph. Another believable character is Jack. The last believable character is Simon. Because William Golding wanted believable characters, he made Ralph round and dynamic, Jack flat and static, and Simon round and static. One interesting character is Ralph. For example Ralph is a round character because he has multiple traits. Sometimes
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text SPM 2003(Old format) Choose on of the novels above and answer the following question: 50. (a) Which character do you sympathize with in the novel you have studied? (b) Explain why you sympathize with this character. Support your answer with evidences from the novel. Analysis: • Requirement of the question : Character sympathized + reasons of sympathizing the character+ plot • Evidences to back up (plot) SPM 2004 Choose any one of the novels above and answer Question 34
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s “Sunset Song” features the hugely successful main character Chris Guthrie,, Chris is a very persuasive character, convincing and believable, She effectively gains the sympathies, through her warm and vital personality and her development throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Chris is a young girl. She is completely innocent, and unaware of her attitude towards sex; “kissed with her kind , red lips…… it was over in a moment, quick and shameful, fine for all
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SHARED THOUGHTS………….19.05.2012. =================================== As told by Robin Sharma. Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico's top Bank, once shared a line with me that I'll never forget : " Robin, Nothing Fails like Success." Powerful Thought. You, as well as your organization, are most vulnerable when you are most successful. Success actually breeds complacency, inefficiency and - worst of all - arrogance. When people and businesses get really successful, they often fall
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How do the characters change or evolve through the course of the story? What events trigger such changes? In the story I read called Gym Candy a boy was just going into his freshman year and wanted to be a starter on the varsity team. And when he didn’t make it as a starter he only got one chance to do something when the starting running back got into trouble and was suspended for the final game of the season. If the team won they went to the playoffs, but Mick (the main character) got stopped
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There are often some huge problems by judging other people way to handle difficult times. In the short story “Land of the lost” by Stewart O´Nans we land in the middle of the main characters life, which is basically build up by the judgment of her surroundings. Like millions of people her life has reach a part where it has taken a descending track. She has lost almost everything of value. She lives alone with a dog and has a pointless job without any meaning to her at all. But who has not tried that
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Lauren Hearon Professor Gordon English 1302 January, 20 2013 Round Character Analysis “Saving Sourdi” In this general response I choose the character Nea, Sourdi’s younger sister from the literature piece “Saving Sourdi”. This story was originally written by one of the world famous author’s Langston Hughes. In this story both Sourdi and her sister Nea is the two main characters discussed. Both Sourdi and her sister Nea display having a close bonding type of sister relationship. At
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interpretation of what we see or read makes us relate to what we see. Like watching a movie, when we see the hero or heroine get shot or going through some kind of problems, the force and power behind our imagination makes us relate strongly to the character and even drives us almost to the point of crying for the hero/heroine. According to the author, things don’t just happen in front us or before us, our imagination makes the situation seems so powerful that it feels as if we’re the one going through
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