I'm Not scared essay
“The unexpected is essential to the craft of storytelling”. Compare how the authors of the comparative texts you have studied used the unexpected in their texts. You may confine your answer to key moments in the texts.
The two comparative texts I have studied in which I will examine their main unexpected key moments and their effects on the reader are 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë and 'I'm Not Scared' by Gabriele Salvatores. In my answer I will discuss four unexpected moments of each text, three minor and one major. 'Wuthering Heights' is a gothic romance novel set in the late 18th century and is a story of an adopted orphan child, Heathcliff, who is then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life. It is designed to both horrify and fascinate readers with scenes of passion and cruelty. 'I'm Not Scared' is filmed in a small town called Acqua Traverse in southern Italy. Set in a time riddled with terrorism and kidnapping in the 1970s, and tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, Michele, who discovers a terrible crime the entire population of his southern Italian town has committed and how the crime is in fact closer to home than he could have ever imagined.
I am dedicating my first paragraph of my essay to discuss the effect of the unexpected on the reader from a personal viewpoint. The unexpected keeps the reader's attention and maintains a constant level of supsense from start to end, a key element to any well written text. Unseen events also plays on the reader's sympathy and has the ability to change our vision and viewpoint and/or our opinion of individual characters. Plots twists and dramatic turn of events really hook the reader, almost like a fish being caught on a hook, the temptation to take a bite is too much and once you have taken the first bite you can't
The two comparative texts I have studied in which I will examine their main unexpected key moments and their effects on the reader are 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë and 'I'm Not Scared' by Gabriele Salvatores. In my answer I will discuss four unexpected moments of each text, three minor and one major. 'Wuthering Heights' is a gothic romance novel set in the late 18th century and is a story of an adopted orphan child, Heathcliff, who is then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life. It is designed to both horrify and fascinate readers with scenes of passion and cruelty. 'I'm Not Scared' is filmed in a small town called Acqua Traverse in southern Italy. Set in a time riddled with terrorism and kidnapping in the 1970s, and tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, Michele, who discovers a terrible crime the entire population of his southern Italian town has committed and how the crime is in fact closer to home than he could have ever imagined.
I am dedicating my first paragraph of my essay to discuss the effect of the unexpected on the reader from a personal viewpoint. The unexpected keeps the reader's attention and maintains a constant level of supsense from start to end, a key element to any well written text. Unseen events also plays on the reader's sympathy and has the ability to change our vision and viewpoint and/or our opinion of individual characters. Plots twists and dramatic turn of events really hook the reader, almost like a fish being caught on a hook, the temptation to take a bite is too much and once you have taken the first bite you can't