Samuel Beckett: Sound and Silence Patrick Richert FHSU February 15‚ 2013 Samuel Beckett was a world renown author of poetry‚ novels‚ and theatrical plays. He was born in Ireland and spent much of his adult life in Paris. His works were primarily written in French‚ and then translated‚ many times by the author himself‚ into English. He is known for creating works of dark comedy‚ and absurdism‚ and later in his career a minimalist. Due to his late start as an author‚ he is considered one
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Carley Argentieri Literature 101 Quinn Rough Draft The Things They Carried By: Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a series of short stories that focuses on the lives of a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War‚ the items they carry; both mandatory and not‚ and how they deal with the hardships while serving. Of course the items that these military men are required to carry are extremely important to their survival‚ I have chosen to focus more on the smaller more personal
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Tim Miller’s performance Rooted was emotional‚ raw‚ and opinionated. Miller performed alone on stage in a story telling that focused on events throughout. Each of the events he describes are connected‚ or rooted‚ together. Miller was the only actor in this performance and he provided a very compelling story about his trials and tribulations as a gay man trying to marry his partner in the United States. I found Millers entire performance very powerful. What I found so powerful was how utterly open
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Why did the Vietnam War really start? Why was the United States fighting? Did it have something to do with the Domino Theory? All of these were questions Tim O’Brien had in “On the Rainy River.” O’Brien was an average young adult who had a job and a family and who did not really care about the Vietnam War that was going on. On day‚ O’Brien received a draft notice and all his thoughts on the war changed‚ but not in a good way. He hated the war so much that he went up to the northern tip of Minnesota
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away from his differences he teaches people to tolerate him by being himself and showing that being different is acceptable. An important idea was how the townspeople lacked in empathy and were quick to judge Edward because he was different Tim Burton teaches us that it is hard to show empathy in the the face of conflict. When the odds are against Edward he tries his hardest to fit in‚ he is prepared to change his appearance and attitude to
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The Coen brothers employ silence in a majority of their noir films‚ with the sole purpose of heightening the drama. Within the absence of sound exist certain imperceptible sounds. Burwell mentions that the brothers write knowing the importance of the sound and the music and that they “put space in their films for that‚ and a lot of people don’t‚ but they actually feel free to have a few minutes where there might not be any dialogue.” The example
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Written task 2 Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is quite a different novel from most and stands out from the variety of other books concerning the Vietnam war. Unlike most books which are classified as fiction or nonfiction The Things They Carried is surreal and fits neither category. O’Brien uses the Vietnam war as his baseline for his story The Things They Carried but he exaggerates and throws bits and pieces of fiction in there to make the story more enticing. It makes you wonder
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is based on the hardships of soldiers when they returned from war. This story is told by 22 chapters‚ each chapter contains a story‚ all of the stories are linked together. In the beginning of the story the author describes and lists the items that soldiers carry in combat. These items consisted of matches‚ food‚ pictures‚ money‚ ammo‚ grenades‚ etc. In “Spin”‚ O’Brien talks about all of the ordinary things soldiers do while they are at war‚ such as playing
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In Tim Burton films‚ the use of cinematic techniques helps the audience feel a sense of unease contrasted with a sense of comfort and safety. Burton uses techniques such as lighting‚ camera angles and shots and framing to depict and highlight different emotions throughout his films. Burton’s job working at Disney helped him develop a thing for comfort and safety due to the children’s stories and scripts he worked on at Disney. He also has an interest in peculiar objects and characters. When both
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lifestyle. Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands‚ described as a ‘romantic‚ dark fantasy’‚ captures the effect of change in a monotonous American neighbourhood. Burton uses many different effects to portray that western society and lifestyle is very dull and full of carbon-copied people following the crowd. Through the use of colour contrast‚ stereotypes and an unusual visitor to the neighbourhood‚ Burton is able to convey his idea of American society very clearly in his film. Burton uses a contrast
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