“Cathedral” is a short story that revolves around the interactions of a blind man, named Robert and a husband of the blind man’s friend. The story opens with the narrator’s wife telling him that her blind friend is going to be visiting. She knew this blind man because she had worked for him “one summer in Seattle ten years ago” (Carver 299). As readers, we get the impression, that the husband feels superior to the blind man because he is able to see, because he continues to say this visit “was not
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Shirley Reigada Professor Frongillio HUM2250 October 5, 2014 The film substitutes Vietnam for Africa in setting but leaves, with the exception of some characters, the novel’s basic structure intact. Do you agree that the movie retains the key elements and core meanings of the novel? Is the movie a literal, loose, or intermediate adaptation? What are the major changes and are they significant? Is the movie more political or mythical, prosaic or poetic, realistic or formalist, in your point of view
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Nonfiction films hold realistic values and goals throughout their production to make audiences believe that the events depicted actually happened somewhere at sometime. To do this, nonfiction filmmakers use great amounts of tools to help them shape the aesthetics of these films. These tools are what make films such as Super Size Me, so realistic and believable to audiences all around. Some tools used to create realism in the production of this film were: Omniscient voiceover, on-camera interview
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It is no surprise, then, that Thomas’s presentation was critically acclaimed, as the amount of photography and pictures that Thomas managed to acquire was all but unprecedented for its time, and served as a perfect way to further establish his authority over the Orient. Overall, the presentation had 240 lantern slides, 30 film segments, and aerial photographs of locations that people had never been able to see before (Hodson, "Lowell Thomas" 51). The presentation was just over two hours long, but
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Attempting to deliver the same message of a classic novella visually on screen with cinematic techniques is definitely a challenge. The original story, written by John Steinbeck consistently uses the contract of light and darkness and imagery at the beginning of every chapter as his literary techniques to highlight the social conditions of the American Great Depression. On the other hand, Gary Sinise's adaptions uses a variety of cinematic techniques, such as lighting, shot and angle, and character
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Writing without purpose would be like playing a game of football without the ball; weird, confusing and a waste of time. Narrative writing makes a point or has a purpose for the readers (Reinking and Von Der Osten pg. 144). Most narrative writing teaches a valuable life lesson because of that they are one of my preferred forms of writing. Action in narration writing is important, without it I think, the story would be bland and fail to keep the reader involved. Conflict being equally important in
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The world portrayed by these films does not make much sense and there is no apparent rhyme or reason behind the inevitable twists and turns. This atmosphere of uncertainty is intensified by the use of a restricted point of view. We experience the narrative through the eyes and voice of the protagonist, rarely surpassing him in awareness. The protagonist is often motivated by a sense of justice that goes
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are Sal, Sal's mom, Mrs. Winterbottom,and Phoebe. the book was kind of boring, at the beginning, but hey, the book had lots of emotion, including sadness, happiness, and hopelessness, and would recommend the book to people who have to write a book report. Anyway This first paragraph connects Creech's idea of sal and phoebe in the beginning of the novel. The first quote that supports the idea is “ Mrs. Winterbottom cleaned, baked ,and did laundry.”(27) This supports my topic because Sal's mom and
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Drug, trade, pregnancy, death, money, a number of factors which constitute the meaningful film. Every person watching the film will be for the film will be worried about this girl’s situations. Not only worried about the situation which is when she swallowed a large amount of drugs smuggled into the United States, if the drug break in body, she will be died, but also worried the situation is that when she did not board the plane of home, instead stay in thus stranger city without any support. It
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Music is displayed as an essential aspect of life throughout Sonny’s Blue’s.When Sonny and the narrator are at the nightclub, Sonny begins to play the piano. The narrator describes Sonny’s playing, “ Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listened, that he would never be free until we did”(47). The narrator uses this to explain that music is the only way to reach freedom. He also uses this to show that artists are creative, and can think of new
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