The desire to initiate changes can either lead to positive or negative results. Keating wants his students to learn ho to be their own individual person and step out of the line of conformity. Neil has gained courage to defy his father but in the end loses his will and committed suicide. Charlie, who is definitely a nonconformist, has done things that eventually led to his expulsion. Todd’s change, however, has matured in a positive way and expressed himself when it really matters; he is the first
Dylan S. McLeod Mr. Hartman ENG 113/LN1 13 June 2012 The Importance of Unimportant Characters Characters are without a doubt one of the most important parts of a story, because they are the story. But there are two different types of characters. You have the obvious Main Characters which are the center of every story, but then there are the unimportant, or better yet background characters. The ones you see, but don’t hear, but actually have just as much an impact, if not sometimes more, on the story as the main character. Like in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, and Sherman Alexie’s “Flight Patterns.” Both stories have very strong main characters, yet each story uses these characters differently.
He continues to describe what makes a good story-teller. A good story teller, according to Ngugi, is one that is able to use language to make the same story seem interesting, and make stories told by others more exciting (998). Ngugi then goes on to describe the intruding colonization that occurred. Rapidly, everything he knew about his life was suppressed, and replacing it was the English language. English became to dominate language to learn, and anyone caught speaking Gikuyu was lashed.
He claims that the best writing is writing that not only amuses the reader, but impacts them as well; and in order to do that, a writer must be in touch with their emotions. Without emotions, such as fear, a writer simply writes as if they have forgotten the problems of the human heart. In the speech, Faulkner continues provide the necessary steps in writing for a bigger purpose: to fulfill their duty as writers. Faulkner challenges young writers to become the pillars for an unbalanced society by sprinkling the speech with antonyms, parallelisms, and polysyndetons. When opening up the speech, Faulkner describes the type of writer he is by incorporating antonyms.
But he changed from listening to his parents and trying to make them proud to finally doing what he wants to do. Todd Anderson Todd Anderson is considered a dynamic character because in the movie his character starts off as a timid and self doubting, and has no confidence in himself. Everyone expects him to be like his older brother. Later on in the movie he changed thanks to mr. keating. Mr. Keating talks him in being a free-thinking individual and leader, Todd Anderson was able over come the final obstacle of his instability only following after his friend Neils suicide.
To achieve this, Dominic and accomplices have to build a dreamscape in which Robert Fischer must project his own ideas and reflections into positive emotional logic. The goal is to enable Fischer to produce his own belief in the idea that "My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps.” Inception is complete upon the moment Fischer, based on his projected subconscious, dreams of a conversation in which his father confirms this idea. In reality it is made clear that Robert’s father never loved him, but Robert had to reconcile his painful relationship with his father at the point of trying to discover a “second will” in his dream. Fischer’s representation of the “second will” reflecting the love his father always had for him was imposed to reduce the cognitive dissonance that existed and reversed a negative emotional experience to a positive one. Cognitive dissonance arises at the point of discrepancy among two concepts in a person that motivates them to reduce the discomfort through restoring consistency.
Although I was a bit surprised due to the use of over-dramatized language in the story which is normally socially and morally un-acceptable but perhaps the essence and true meaning of the story could not have been achieved without that. The writer is immensely skilled, daring and imaginative in the choice of his words and plot setting. His minimal narrative style and plot lines is effective in capturing the reality of his characters and their emotional behavior. The life of the characters is described in such a way that its theme seems closely related to Carver’s personal life. This
So the cultural background of these boys had trained them to see life in a much different way until they have Mr. Keating for an English teacher and he gives his “Carpe Diem “speech which greatly changes their perceptions of school, the future, and life. One of the characters Neal Perry struggles with his own demons after the free thinking Mr. Keating has inspired him to discover that he does not want to be the doctor that his father has so much pushed him to be but rather an actor. Acting is what he is passionate about. Neal was motivated and controlled all his life by his father’s wishes. It was a learned response that to get his father’s approval, he must go the route of prep school, medical school, and then a career as a doctor.
This is not to say that “A Mark on the Wall” is lacking in abstract themes, indeed the self-consciousness of the piece is what forms the abstraction of the theory in “Modern Fiction”. Furthermore, the story must be digested in a manner that is different from the way that one understands conventional ideas of plot, i.e. rising conflict, climax, denouement etc. Woolf’s writing lacks such conventional structures, yet the beauty of the work lies in the ebb and flow of the consciousness itself, which taken as a whole is able to “get at life”, which Woolf says a majority of modern fiction is incapable of doing. To start with, Woolf’s main contention with modern fiction is that it is “materialistic”, that modern writers “are concerned not with the spirit but with the body that they have disappointed us” (2150).
They produce experiences: Experiences leave lasting impressions. They go far deeper than facts, figures and features. And by creating a story-based experience, you cause your audience to walk away with an impression of your brand that doesn’t rest on the precarious edges of their minds but sits deeper in their hearts. Even today, in a culture that does have literacy, people are affected differently when they read a story, as opposed to when the story is read to them or acted out by a story-teller. Thus, the person who can tell the stories (whether on stage, as a TV or radio personality, or even in the classroom) is educating a new generation while maintaining continuity with past generations.