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.
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.
“Composers of distinctively visual texts use techniques that allow the audience to ‘see’ with their eyes as well as with their minds.” Through the use of techniques, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing setting and characters, which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques to create distinctively visual images, which help us to convey an understanding and form a meaning, is evident in the play “The shoe horn sonata” by John Misto and the film “Paradise Road” by Bruce Beresford. Bruce Beresford’s film and John Misto’s play incorporates an array of dramatic techniques, both visual and auditory, to bring to life the extraordinary
By the Waters of Babylon Scenes are easily depicted through the usage of descriptive adjectives and words that flow together to create a scene in a persons mind when reading a story. When an author uses imagery in his or her stories, they are creating a more realistic and visual understanding of what they’re reading. In By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét, imagery is used to describe the atmosphere, setting, and events in an artistic way. For example, imagery is used to describe when John was waiting for a sign. Benét wrote, “I was very still - I could feel the sky above me and the earth beneath.
Journeys are made up of choices and decision that make up our life, some of those choices right and the others not, but it is these choices that we face along our journey that shape who we are. The statement “the journey’ is a concept that can be interpreted in many different ways” states that people perceive journeys in different ways. In the film Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg and the novel The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas written by John Boyne the composers both have different interpretations of journeys and communicates these views and the effect this has on the audience. Such as the ideas of how an inner or emotional journey can change a person, the acceptance and understanding the characters go through, and how physical journeys lead to discovery. These three ideas will be discussed as well as different interpretations of journeys and how the composers have analysed in the two texts.
Examine how effectively composers create and manipulate distinctively visual elements to shape an audience understanding of the ideas and attitudes presented in texts. When creating texts that convey meaning and depth through intellectual techniques, composers will often include distinctively visual elements that allow the audience to truly become involved and relate on a much deeper level, leading to their perceptions being altered and shaped as the composers desire. Sarah Watt’s movie “Look both ways” and John Misto’s play “The Shoe-Horn Sonata” are both prime examples of how distinctly visual elements assist in shaping our understanding of any the issues composers put across in their texts. Through the use of effective stage direction,
Symbolic Convergence Theory focuses on how groups communicate with each other and shares stories to create fantasies. • Structuration Theory. A general framework that explains how people use rules and resources to interact in a social system. Structuration Theory is where groups follow particular rules in their interactions that produce some sort of outcome. • Functional Theory.
Consider the suggestions below. * the value of truth/ truth and perspective * human needs and relationships * the need for control/ stability * the nature of difference * communication * acceptance Activity Aim: * To develop your understanding of the key ideas/ issues in the novel * To make connections between the key ideas and the techniques and events used to shape your understanding of these ideas The themes below are just a few of many possible suggestions. You might choose to phrase the wording of the theme differently, or to add your own. Theme | Events/ content from the text that develop this theme | Relevant quote | Techniques used to shape/ develop meaning | Conclusions you can draw/ your response to the representation of this theme | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Setting Aim: •To understand how different settings are represented in the novel •To appreciate the distinctive characteristics of setting in the novel The novel is set in two, very different locations.
Therefore, people may have their own definition about literature based on the literary works in their own era. According to Semi (1990:1) literature is viewed as a result of creativity process of human being which uses language as its media. Even though the definition of literature is relative, literature, however, is a part of society culture. It uses language as its device to express some messages which want to be shared by the authors to the readers. The message may be in various forms, it can be the author’s perception about the world, reflection of socio-cultural conditions, or about some values that they believe in.
Realist writers use literary devices to show people as they are. Time manipulation for example, is when an author uses different elements to suspend, accelerate, or to alter chronological order of events to add to the effectiveness of the story. Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman use this to better focus on the true meaning of their works. In the stories, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the Story of an Hour, and The Yellow Wallpaper they use time manipulation to add to the story as a whole. Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story told in limited third person.