Letter to A Friend: Open and Closed Endings Dear Olisia‚ How are you? I hope all is well. So I was talking to your brother‚ Max‚ the other day and he was telling me how you have decided to come to Leaside High School for your high school life! I am honestly so happy that you have chosen this pathway! I remember you telling me you enjoyed English very much from a young age. Well‚ I am currently taking my 9th grade English course and I thought that maybe you would want to be ahead of the game and
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Sometimes in movie production a film is developed from a piece of literature. Directors will use the plot of a book either to create a unique movie‚ or to give the audience a chance to see what their favorite book is like when acted out on the screen. Willa Cather’s "Paul’s Case" is a good example of a work adapted to video. The movie has slight differences from the book‚ but the director Lamont Johnson follows the original closely. Most movies that are inspired by books hold some relation to
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convey meaning beyond the dialogue (Bordwell). In the opening sequence of Strangers on a Train‚ director Alfred Hitchcock masterfully manipulates the visual methods of costume‚ framing‚ and performance to reveal Bruno’s character and to foreshadow the plot. Costume is used in the opening scene to reveal the peculiarity of Bruno’s character‚ who is later revealed
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My Father Goes to Court Summary The story is set in a city in the Philippines. The young narrator begins by describing his large family. Though they are poor they are full of mischief and laughter. The children are all strong and healthy even though they often go hungry. In contrast‚ their rich neighbor’s children are thin and sickly although they are given plenty of good food‚ which their impoverished neighbors enjoy smelling over the fence. Consequently‚ the rich man brings a charge against the
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Oliver‚ but after Noah antagonised Oliver and Oliver attacked Noah‚ Mr Sowerberry did not take any second thought to beat Oliver up. Basically everyone he had known from birth‚ had betrayed him in all different ways. The theme betrayal had affected the plot very majorly. If Oliver wasnt betrayed by the other characters‚ he wouldnt have to keep running away. Oliver would keep running away from all the people who betrayed him‚ which ended him up in England‚ so he could start a better life. When Jack Dawkins
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its main characters‚ the plot‚ and the symbolism it contains. A story’s setting is usually described in the beginning of the story‚ giving an explanation of where and when the story is taking place. Many stories have a protagonist and an antagonist as well as other key characters. The protagonist is the "hero or antihero; (the) character you tend to ’root for’." . The antagonist opposes the protagonist‚ usually creating some sort of conflict within the story. The plot of a story is the way the events
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area is full of farmable land‚ and obsessing over this one plot seems preposterous. I can’t help but to agree with what Robert says here. The film had a tendency to pan over the vast green fields‚ yet there is never any talk of them. Ebert also mocks the
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The plot of Equus consists of two pieces‚ and the surface structure goes on to develop one mysterious event. The first act is composed of 21 chapters‚ and it is the process of Dr. Dysart diagnosing and investigating the conflict situation caused by Alan’s incident. By using hypnosis‚ disassociation reactions‚ and the use of truth drugs. Dysart finds psychical causes of Alan’s hysterical behavior‚ which manifests as a sad-hearted dysfunction. The second act is composed of 14 chapters and is based
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cover up the truth regarding his son. In the end we find out his son turned out to be dead; and he did such a great job to cover it up to face the cold hard fact. In “War” by Luigi Pirandello he uses symbolism‚ plot‚ and setting [BE MORE SPECIFIC: WHAT KIND OF SYMBOL? WHAT ABOUT THE PLOT? WHICH SETTING?] to show that some people don’t tell the truth because they know that there might be a negative outcome. To form the short story “War” the element symbolism helped by the title itself and two characters
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Dynamic/developing – undergoes permanent change * Major – main roles * Minor – supporting roles * Direct presentation – tells the reader straight out * Indirect presentation – readers will have to infer from the character in action 3. Plot * Series of events that make the story move forward. * Exposition – introduces the setting‚ the characters of the story and the background of the story * Rising action – beginning of the problem\ * Crisis - the complication of the problem
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