Two authors that discuss this method of giving deeper meanings to stories are Stephen King (in his essay “My Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Gloria Steinem (in her essay “Wonder Woman”). By comparing and contrasting the contents, styles, and purposes of King’s and Steinem’s essays, it is evident that both authors believe in this “never judge a book by its cover” attitude. Stephen King knows quite a bit about writing horror novels. After all, he has written over one- hundred books, many of those eventually being transformed into movies or television shows (p.582). In “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” King discusses his thoughts on horror films and challenges the reader to change their initial perception of the term “horror movie.” Most Americans think of a movie with lots of blood and monsters when they think about horror movies.
General statement: Teddy inspires us by the ways he coups with reality by creating and artificial world. Claim 1: Teddy completely immerses himself in Upalia. Claim 2: Teddy controls his parental, social and anger issues. Claim 3: Teddy faces reality. Thesis statement: In life people create artificial reality for themselves instead of facing the reality they live in.
Donnie Darko shows how the monstrous can be represented or misrepresented depending on the interpretation by the viewer. This is a film filled with elements of science fiction, horror and drama but does not come under one genre. Its appeal is in its eccentric way of telling a story, and its ambiguities of both the characters and the exploration of determinism and free will, sanity and insanity, loneliness and love. However it also rejects most common conventions having the main monstrous figure -Frank the bunny- also the one responsible to get Donnie (the protagonist) ready before the world ends, thus saving the original world by causing the destruction of the tangent world. It uses the story to convey its meaning primarily through dialogue and meticulous editing and leaves the majority of the interpretation of the film up to the viewer’s imagination.
Not particularly attractive, crippled, and a (closeted) homosexual, Sam seemed to be born to be pitied. Sam was, however, able to understand his dire need for a transformation through an analogy to magic and comics. He says: “To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing. You weren’t the same person when you came out as when you went in…. It was called ‘Metamorphosis.’” (3).
You will be submitting your questions and answers with your final portfolio. ENGL 51: Eleventh Grade English 1 Portfolio Assignment 14.3 Chapter Questions To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 17–24 Name: Ariel Blackwell____________________________________________________ Date: 5/1/14____________________________________________ Confirmation Number: ________________________________________ Chapter 17: Summary Atticus cross-examines Bob Ewell on the stand. Ewell’s testimony is discredited before the jury. First, Atticus draws attention to his failing to summon a doctor to tend to his daughter’s injuries, and second, Atticus shows the jury Bob Ewell’s left-handedness. Chapter 17: Questions 1.
*These differences should be important. Paragraph 2 Sentence 1: Begin with a transition (The first major difference between the text and the movie is the relationship between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother. In the story, …”) Sentence 2: You would then discuss what happened in the story, use a transition word or phrase (“In contrast” etc), and talk about what happened in the movie. Sentence 3-5 (or 6): After you’ve listed the difference, you will then discuss why you think the movie made the change, and if you think it was more or less effective than the story and why. Paragraphs 3 and 4 Do the same thing you did in paragraph 2, except with different points.
There were rodents in the trenches that Paul and the other men had to protect their food from. Tjaden has tried of killing lice by scraping them off his skin into a bucket and killing them with fire by heating up the bucket to a certain degree. Haie jokes that he must have gotten the lice from the hospital since they have red crosses on their heads. After a long time on duty, Paul receives seventeen days of leave. He uses the time off to go home.
Bradbury’s “The Sound of Thunder” and Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” are both rather interesting science fiction narrations. Both stories pertain to an adventure through an unknown world as the setting, and refer to the way that technology can change the world and individuals by extension. Both stories contain some of the same elements as each other, but are represented in different ways. To start, both of the main characters (Eckels is to “Sound of Thunder” as Jeremy is to “Nethergrave”) seem to be misfits in their own ways. In “Nethergrave,” the story starts out with Jeremy at school, and he makes a winning goal in soccer for the other team.
Victor Frankenstein was an arrogant and ambitious scientist that wanted to play with the powers beyond human understanding and answer the ‘secret of life,’ with his “human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanisms of the Creator of the world.” Frankenstein effectively achieved this by “bestowing animation on a lifeless matter.” Shelley throughout the fourth chapter expresses the excited and ambitious scientist during the process of seeking his answers, he thought he was about to create “a new species [that] will bless [him] as its creator and source.” However this is juxtaposed with the decline of the individual which is revealed in the next chapter, “Now that [he had] finished” he realised “the beauty of the dream had vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart.” By answering the ‘secret of life,’ Frankenstein is forced to accept the consequences from releasing the ‘monster’ on the world. Shelley uses techniques of imagery to describe the unnamed monster “I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.” Shelley makes constant references to the physical and emotion price paid as a result of the individual, Victor
Throughout this story up until the graveyard scene Hamlet has been slightly childish towards death saying that his uncle will die by his hands he has this mind set for most of the play until the graveyard where, besides making jokes, shows that he has matured his thoughts of death as if a lot of time has passed by. Well a lot of time does pass by in the tragedy of Hamlet possibly eight years. Aside from Hamlet having matured his views of death and life this play takes place over many years not just a few months. In scene one he is a university student so most likely 22 years old but when the gravedigger is in the scene he says he has been a gravedigger since young Hamlet was born and a few lines latter saying he has been a sexton for thirty years. “It was that very day that young Hamlet was born” (247) “I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.” (249) Hamlet has been very indecisive over the years considering how many times he could have killed Claudius.