self-awareness also shows that he is caught between two worlds—between childhood and adulthood‚ and between the lawful‚ rational world and the lawless pirate world. Jim’s story is therefore not merely a fanciful adventure tale but also a narrative about growing up. Jim’s narrative of his heroic acts is valuable because he records them modestly‚ giving us an insider view of heroism that is not very glamorous. Jim is not arrogant‚ but instead is humbled by his mistakes and successes. He takes full responsibility
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director’s extensive use of reminiscences and his drastic manipulation of plot time‚ although regarded as ordinary now‚ were considered almost “traumatic” for the age‚ since they disrupted the conventional linearity expected of classical Hollywood’s narratives. In order to accustom audiences to this new storytelling device‚ Welles introduced flashback sequences in the plot through well calibrated dissolve techniques and wipe transitions. It is also interesting to notice that‚ as Bordwell and Thompson
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................... 1 Shirley A. Stave and Justine Tally Part I: Racially Constructed Space in A Mercy Chapter I ...................................................................................................... 9 Eco-Critical Focal Points: Narrative Structure and Environmentalist Perspectives in Morrison’s A Mercy James Braxton Peterson Chapter II................................................................................................... 23 The Politics of “Home” in A Mercy Anissa Wardi
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2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) work together in any two of the set texts in Block 4? ‘The lure of the real’ (Bogan‚A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300‚Block 4) are used to create dramatic effect and depth to narratives‚ in interesting and diverse ways. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. When the real and the fantastic combine‚ truly delightful and often informative‚ stories are created. Novels differ in their proportional use of realism and fantasy
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The News: Realism‚ Narrative and Form ________________________________________ The questions of Realism‚ bias and representation take us back to the material we looked at in the first two weeks of the course. As I have tried to stress‚ when we look at the issue of "realism" and the "representation of reality" in the media we have to be aware of the fact that the media always presents a "mediated" version of that reality‚ on its own terms. Sociological‚ political‚ cultural and ideological
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movies. In trailers‚ the narrative is often promoted through a film’s characterizations. These appeals to interest in the characters draw audiences to films on the basis of identification with the characters. Audiences are invited to identify with the character’s situation or motivation and to want to participate or share in the film’s resolution. The first person to show up in Fifty Shades of Grey trailer is Ana Steele‚
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first two minutes of the film‚ time is condensed in two ways: by the third person narrative‚ which encapsulates the film’s exposition in the most laconic of terms‚ describing the meeting and developing friendship of Jules and Jim‚ and also by the selective images which largely avoid redunant description of the aural narrative‚
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that represents something else‚ often an idea or something intangible. Connotation: A word used that has attached meanings associated with feelings. Denotation: The exact meaning of the word without the attached meaning Elements of Narrative Protagonist: The main character Antagonist: The character who
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Camus’s use of hyper-realistic imagery seems to be the surface of The Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style
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Alfredo Zavala April 16‚ 2013 Editing: Memento & The Hurt Locker Memento is a film in which editing is part of the narrative while The Hurt Locker is a film in which the narrative uses editing. These two great films are very different when examining the editing. For example Memento has a very difficult story to understand due to the editing of the narrative and the story that Leonard Shelby is trying to tell. For the film‚ The Hurt Locker‚ the editing in the film is used to create dramatic
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