The novel is written from the main character’s point of view, and depicts the events that form the story. Characterisation is very prominent throughout the novel. Maximum, or Max, has a lot of feelings, and emotions, that are vividly described to allow the reader to experience what she feels. The other characters are given descriptions that allow the reader to enter their world, to take part in their adventures. There is much exploration of different themes in this novel, including science versus ethics, and good versus evil.
Despite the two texts being different as one is a film and one is a short story, they both share similarities which makes the comment above incorrect as they are not completely different. The film Stranger than Fiction and Café Society both share multiple similarities for example both texts share the same communication techniques. They both use meta fictional devices, both about narrating a story and both mix reality with fantasy/imagination. Stranger than Fiction and Café Society both use metafictional devices as a communication technique and there are two examples used in both texts. The first metafictional device that is used in both texts is the idea of a story about a writer who creates a story.
With the different characters in the story, the meaning of their names gave color and attractions to the story itself and to the readers. Each character involvement gave impact to the flow from the beginning to end. The research aims to identify the meaning of the names of selected main characters in the two books. By knowing the meaning of the characters names, the readers would be able to decipher how it affects their corresponding characteristics. How the characters move to make the whole story in the two given books were also stated and sufficient examples and proofs were given.
Narrative Criticism is an analytical method that outlines how a story is told, but more specifically who is telling the story and what elements are used to tell it. It is comprised of two basic aspects of storytelling referred to as “plot” and “discourse.” Plot refers to the simple “what happens to whom” of the text, while discourse is referring to which method the plot is told to the audience. This could be using production values, visual elements or other methods of production. There are several different narrative “vocabularies” that exist to tell the story. Three of which are: traditional- as outlined by Aristotle, structuralist- concerned with an approach to look at the plot, and visualist- which uses visual filming aspects like color, icons, and light-dark to delineate the plot or discourse.
The drama genre in its entirety exists within the film Pride and Prejudice. According to Tim Dirks classification of the drama genre, this particular division of cinema portrays “serious presentations or stories with settings or life situations” that renders “realistic characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature,” (Dirks). Another key aspect of drama genre is the topical focus on genuine human ills, such as “class divisions” and “sexual inequality,” (Dirks). Although the spectrum of the drama genre extends through many films, Pride and Prejudice can be further categorized as a subgenre, literary genre. Literary works have greatly impacted the production of multiple films based entirely from the ideology of an author’s novel, memoir, or play.
The producer does this to position us in a specific way. In a documentary we believe it to be truthful recounts of different events. Sometimes documentaries have as much manipulation and positioning as the popular films and TV shows. Documentary film makers conduct this audience positioning by the use of many different filmic techniques, some of these include cinematography, representation, audience targeting, narrative structure, social values and discourses. Many documentary makers include their individual cultural assumptions and discourses to distort the truth and position the target audience to react in a desired manner.
What is added to your understanding and appreciation of Apocalypse Now, Avatar and Homeland if you approach them as film reinterpretations of the themes and issues explored in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? Apocalypse Now is, according to the filmmaker and to the wider public, a film adaptation of the novella Heart of Darkness Conrad, (1899). There is no clear evidence however, that Avatar or Homeland are influenced by the book. Bogue (1981) argues that Apocalypse Now is a “loose paraphrase” of the original work, suggesting that although major sections parallel the original, parts are ignored and the adaptor’s own remarks are added. He calls the film a “formal imitation”.
Some famous series that do this include Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkein and Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Although these books have wizards, magic and monsters in them they also have beings with emotions and outlooks on the world that reflect mankind's. Fictional novels also often take themes and issues that are universal and timeless, sometimes directly and sometimes in the form of a metaphor, to put across a point or raise awareness of an issue in an effective way. Some would say the Harry Potter books
“Working” thesis: The epic genre is somewhat prevalent in culture’s modern multiple media formats. This is shown in select movies, books, and video games. Body P1: The relevance in books. Modern day books are depending on the genre, are either based on a true story or are entirely fiction based. The fiction based stories may be based off of an old lies tale, or possibly even an epic.
Perfume has many emphasising changes within the plot, many oversights and omissions of scenes from the film as well as sections from the novel; some obvious and large, others small and minor. The main purpose is due to the lack of time the film has, having to largely compress the timeline of ‘high important and major’ events, in order to signify and push forward the key concepts and main ideas from Tom Tykwer’s perspective in comparison to Suskind’s novel. The storyline in both book and film revolve around an unusual and original basis that captures and drags the reader/audience’s emotions, creating the feeling of obligation. The beginning of the film began with Grenouille enclosed and restricted in a jail cell- an event that was to happen much later during the timeline according to the storyline and novel. Director Tom Twyker chose to set the introduction of the film out this way as it created similar effect on the audience in comparison to the first paragraph of the book; it made you think to yourself how?