In typical horror films the females that always run back up the stairs from there killer or hide or take a shower always end up dead because they trap themselves. As an audience we know what is going to happen but she is unaware of anything that could or is going to happen to her. The camera angles show every part of the scene and they cut from different parts of the shower. When Janet is showering we have several camera shots which are cut and you have several camera shots facing the shower head as if it was watching her and this is important because it shows us that there is something or someone watching her but she is still very unaware. They also show a lot of her body as she is showering to again add to the naivety that Janet has.
In “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” there is hidden beauty in the miners coming together to raise the boy, and also in Kentuck’s giving up his life to save the boy. In “Miggles,” hidden beauty is shown through the beautiful young woman who is taking care of the crippled man simply because she wants to. “The full moon…looked into the room. It touched the lonely figure in the chair with an infinite compassion, and seemed to baptize with a shining flood the lowly head of the woman whose hair, as in the sweet old story, bathed the feet of him she loved” (Harte 41). In “Tennessee’s Partner,” hidden beauty is shown by Tennessee’s Partner in his sentimental feelings towards Tennessee.
However, snakes represent sinister forces, foreshadowing the next “unfortunate event”, which was Uncle Monty’s death. In the rest of the film, many aspects can be considered “eccentric”. For example, Aunt Josephine’s seaside home perching on the edge of the cliff and her extreme paranoid behaviors such as fear of her house burning down if she used heat to cook, instead she fed the children with cold lemon soup. The “odd” characters are somehow very imaginative. The sets in the movie are excellent, very dramatic with a Gothic like appearance.
And then there is my favorite character in the book, Lizzie. Lizzie can leave her body; she is coming to terms with her new found psychic ability and finds something in herself to give. She holds Jake and Joaquin together and becomes their anchor as they battle with illness and death. The river is also a large character in this book. It is the river in El Paso that separates Mexico from Texas.
In the early parts of the story, when Edzi and Nani’s first child, Kofi, falls sick, it is attributed to the works of a wizard or witch tryin to suck the blood of the little boy. This belief is strengthened by the fetish priest who knows very well that the truth of the matter is far from what he would have the troubled mother and grandmother believe. He goes on to give the mother “a few simple rules to follow in other to preserve the life of her child.” Among these, he asks her to place a bowl of palm oil before each window so that “all witches and wizards travelling about at night, who might wish to take the life of the child, will drink the oil and besatisfied and so will not enter the room to drink the child’s blood. Even though we know this is not really the case, the grandmother, Dekpor, pays a huge sum of money to the priest because the society actually believes in the existence and works of witches and wizards. Again, when the child’s sickness reoccurs, we find his mother going through the town, beating a tin and shouting in a loud voice “you witches and wizards of this place, leave my child.
I think this is just can-do spirit. Another scene which impressed me most was that Cogburn’s saving Mattie. Because Mattie was bite by a poisonous snake. At the beginning, they rode the horse, but later, the horse was tired to death. So Cogburn had nothing to do take Mattie and run.
With her husband’s sometimes reluctant help, she has endeavored to change attitudes about black mambas and other snakes found in the area. In addition to starting the nation’s only reptile park, devoted to educating the public and providing a refuge for the animals, the two have become the region’s go-to experts for safe, humane snake removal from homes, schools, resorts and workplaces. In the course of catching and relocating any number of snakes per day, Thea and Clifton give impromptu lessons about the snakes, covering fact and fiction, and do their best to prevent any unnecessary casualties – human or reptile. In addition to their other efforts, Thea and Clifton developed a program designed to track black mambas in the wild for the first time and to gain new insights into their behavior. With the help of a snake expert from Johannesburg, they were able to surgically insert radio transmitters in a number of captured black mambas, allowing them to follow the snakes after their release.
Chi Li Slays the Serpent In the mountains of Chiang Lo County, an atrocious serpent resided, demanding that a young damsel be sacrificed to him “on the appointed day in the eighth month” each year (Rosenberg, 331). Because no man has been able to defeat the monster, the people of Yueh were forced to obey the serpent’s brutal demands. This “tradition” continued for nine years until the tenth, when a courageous maiden volunteered to be the sacrifice: Chi Li, the youngest of six daughters. Determined to bring peace to her people and end the tradition, Chi Li used her wits to outsmart the creature and successfully slayed it. Chi Li was assumed to be “a worthy wife for the king of Yueh...[and] became the queen of Yueh.” (333).
Bradbury creates multiple examples of dehumanization in this novel. To begin with, one of the first acts of dehumanization occurs in the first part of the book, where Mildred commits suicide and gets her stomach pumped. When Montag finds his wife he gets help for her. Then, when the people show up they bring a giant snake with them to suck out her blood and replace it with new blood. This shows dehumanization because while this is occurring, the medics are not even worrying about it, they are standing there having a conversation and smoking while Mildred is dying.
2. Fictitious story: a tale of two snakes: Thanh Xa and Bach Xa * Two snakes fell in love and transformed themselves into beautiful ladies to charm two orphan brothers who are popular in a small villageThanh Xa got married the older brother, and Bach Xa became his younger’s wife. * But the men grew unhealthy Taoism helped them to reveal the snakes by eating the poison solids and liquids in the early morning of May 5th (lunar calendar)the men were safe; snakes disappeared. 3. Irreplaceable dishes.