Spatial continuity/ temporal continuity Selected clip: 5:10 - 07:17; 9 shots; 2 temporal ellipses. The beginning of the scenes is a peaceful sea and a man walk into the scenes. The radio sound gives audience a feeling of a normal morning. The second shot turns to a woman on bed. The shot is logical, as the audience expected that it is a normal morning and the characters are just awoke. There is a guess at this point, about the relationship of these two people. The third shot gives us a full view
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“RUBBISH!”, written by Chris Lydgate and Nick Budnick, is a first person narrative that begins as a prolepsis paragraph that also has a mysterious tone to it. “It's past midnight. Over the whump of the wipers and the screech of the fan belt, we lurch through the side streets of Southeast Portland in a battered white van,”. This direct quote is a “flashforward” and a narrative hook. The reasons for these two narrative styles is because the quote describes the scene of what is to come in the story
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Both narrators in “Lessons of Love” by W. D. Wetherell and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” are similar because they both are wanting a hopeless love. One reason that the narrators have no chance with their love is because the “chased” are much older than their pursuers. In the first story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell, the narrator is about 14 years old. Sheila is about 17. So, Sheila is about a senior in high school and the narrator is a freshman. In the second
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Janet Cooke is infamous for her fabricated story, titled “Jimmy’s World”, which she wrote and then published, claiming it was a true story. Janet Cooke was a journalist for the Washington Post, back in the 1980’s. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, but was stripped of her title later that year when she announced that her famous article, “Jimmy’s World” was made up. “Jimmy’s World” was about an eight year old heroin addict. Cooke originally said she had interviewed the boy, his mother, and the mother’s
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The Osage Firebird was written by Betty Marie Tallchief. It was about a shy girl who thru dancing brought her out her shell. She grew up listening to her grandma stories and wanted to fulfill that story. At the end she becomes a huge ballet dancer. In the 1st paragraph it talks about her childhood. She was born in 1925 in Oklahoma. She saw herself as a typical Indian girl. She wanted to find a way to give herself another title. Started by the age of 4 she set out to be a ballerina to become
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Everyone has awoke in the middle of the night in a hot sweat with chills running down their spine. In the town of Black Rock, in Northern Maine, this feeling is felt throughout the community. In Black Rock, there are a group of protagonists who are all-to-realistic villains who try to gain control of the entire towns minds. Throughout the beginning of the book it explains the life of main character, Paul Annendale. A lot is explained about Paul but what is shown throughout the novel most dominantly
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Summarize the main points of each of the statements chosen. What stuck out to you about these testimonies and why? No “I” should be used/ You should be writing at least five sentences for each excerpt read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruby Bates: During the testimony of Ruby Bates, she confesses she lied to them and was told by Victoria Price what to say. Ruby said she and Victoria was never raped
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Before I read any book the first thing I do is read the book's description. This helps me understand what the story is generally about and who the narrator is. When I first read the description for Ernest J. Grant's ''A Lesson Before Dying" I thought the narrator would be Jefferson, the man sentenced to the death penalty. After a few minutes I understood that that would not be the case. The narrator of the story was Grant Wiggins, Jefferson's grandmother's friend's nephew. Also happens to be the
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This is the narrative of a history professor called Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) seeking out his identical double after spotting him in a rental film. He is a rather melancholic man, primarily because he is hooked in a routine which encircles the relationship with Mary, his girlfriend. Upon first viewing, we have a definite grasp on the central story. On the other hand, this film is much harder to decipher many of its hidden messages. It was the added elements of spiders, keys and surreal imageries
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The protagonist in A Scanner Darkly is an interesting one. The protagonist is undercover police officer who become addicted to the drug named Substance D that has taking over. When he got addicted, it was like he was two different people. The protagonist Bob Arctor was chosen to do this assignment out of all the other agents. The reason I think they chose him because he had nothing. After leaving his family for his own reasons, I think they chose him because of that. He had no one to care about and
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