Characters Effect on a Reader Characters dealing with a situation affect each reader differently. The characters reaction to a situation may have a reader feel exactly as the character does‚ or in some instances‚ the reader may look more at how differently they would feel in the same situation. In an attempt to answer Henry James on how characters are only as interesting as their response to the particular situation we will look at “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and “To Build a Fire”
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Reader-Oriented Criticism This essay will summarize what Reader-Oriented Criticism actually is and how it plays a role with in Friday Night Lights. First of all‚ Reader-Oriented Criticism is the interaction of what the text was written to mean and how the viewer reads it‚ also known as text-reader relationships. “As such‚ reader-oriented criticism is largely concerned with “potential” as opposed to “actualized” meanings of the text to an audience” (Vande 331). The text throughs out cues on how
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Code and convention of horror film: A horror film follows certain code and convection to achieve its purpose of scaring and alarming the audience. The following are some of them: Setting/location: The location used for this genre of a film is isolated and lonely area that has been abandoned or an area where the victim will feel vulnerable. For example small communities‚ dark streets‚ narrow alleyways‚ roads‚ woods‚ haunted places‚ farms‚ country sides and cities etc… sometimes places with ‘dark’
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How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? “How could it be a comfort that the pain I went through because of my love for Hanna was in a way‚ the fate of my generation‚ a German fate…” This quote from Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader illustrates how and why two main social groups are represented in a symbolic way. In other words‚ Michael and Hanna’s love story is an allegory for the relationship between different generations in Germany: those who experienced the war first-
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Northwest Scene Analysis One of the final scenes in the film “North By Northwest‚” most easily recognized as the matchbook warning scene‚ conveys a significant amount of meaning in a small window of time. What makes the matchbook scene an excellent scene to evaluate is the large number of various film techniques that are used to portray its meaning and message. The scene‚ located towards the end of the film‚ creates a rising action to climatic level of suspense in the overall storyline of the film. Thorough
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Becoming a flexible reader There are three important reading style that each student to be a flexible reader. Each has its own purpose‚ a student has to identify his purpose for reading and decide if he is reading or looking for specific information. The first style is Study Reading‚ this is the use when the purpose is to read difficult material at a high level of comprehension. the student should read at a rate that is slower than his normal rate‚ he must challenge himself to understand the material
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Scene Analysis - Across the Universe Across the Universe is a social commentary on the state of the government and the nation during the time of the Vietnam War. Romantic and familial relationships‚ such as the one between Lucy Carrigan & Jude‚ provide a backdrop along with the sweeping soundtrack courtesy of The Beatles. The anti-war theme becomes evident during the “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” scene which occurs at an Army Induction Center in New York City. Max Carrigan‚ the brother
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the process of envisioning and designing a film‚ which includes the key players of what it takes to design a film. My film of choice I will talk about and give examples for is Zoolander (2001). Film Production Director- Ben Stiller Production Designer- Robin Standefer Art Director- Stephen Alesch A film director is the person who directs the making of a film. In some cases the film director can control the artistic and dramatic aspects of the film . They also visualize the script while depending
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Reader Response Theory - can be traced back to Aristotle and Plato - literature’s effect on the reader - sources in the writings of the French structuralists (who stress the role of the perceiver as a maker of reality) - reader criticism became recognized as a distinct critical movement only in the 1970s - less a unified critical school than a vague collection of disparate critics with a common point of departure - “Reader Theory” “audience theory” neutral terms
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HRM Incident 1: A Degree for Meter Readers Question 1: Should there be a minimum education requirement for the meter reader job? Discuss. Yes. There should be a minimum education requirement for the meter reader job. Even though the tasks required in meter reading are relatively simple but Judy had been having considerable difficulty keeping the 37 meter reader position filled. It is true that the commitment shown to obtain educational qualifications‚ such as a high school diploma‚ may reflect
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