In Edward Scissorhands, when Edward gets trapped inside Jim’s house there is a high angle as he is panicking and doesn’t know what to do. High angle also makes him seem alone. When Charlie is introduced in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton al so uses a high angle when he goes to bed. This shows Charlie is small, alone, and poor. Finally, when Edward in Big Fish first met the giant man, there was a high angle shot that made us realize that Edward is puny compared to the giant man.
The hallway was pitch-black but he could see perfectly, as he headed towards his father’s room. He pushed the door open with a loud creak and smiled madly at the sight of his father sleeping silently. He moved like a ghost to the bedside and started beating this father. Years of being beaten fuelled him, as every hit got harder and harder. His smile fills his face as he hears his father’s screams, when his nose shatters causing cartilage and blood to drip.
He returns to the old apartment and it is empty, used only now by the spiders who have built themselves luxurious condos in the arches and windowsills. His words are remorseful and vague, never allowing the reader to fully understand what has become of his sister and his mother but he apologizes to the empty place, to his sister Laura
He wakes up again later to see tons of birds. He heard the sound of children screaming from the other room so he rushes in there and fights the birds till dawn. He starts preparing breakfast for his family while they get ready to go to school. He has worries about the birds attacking his daughter but shrugs it off. He meets his employer at his house to see if they had bird problems but is called a fool.
Sweating. Breathing hard. Jumps out of bed and bolts for the bathroom. SOUND of Hank throwing up ON BEDROOM WALL: MILITARY CARBINE, M-16, mounted above an ITHACA .22. PHOTOS ON DRESSER: — HANK (age 10) with his father BUCK (age 30) — Dressed in hunting garb.
Then he says: "When hoot owl screeching, westward flies, Gauge the sun…Look to Dies, And Run." As Mr. Small moves toward Pluto, the man disappears into the darkness. The next day Mr. small shows Thomas a hidden passage in the kitchen that the slaves used to hide in after that he tells Thomas to go to bed, When Thomas reaches his room, he sees a big chair facing away from the door towards the fireplace, and doesn’t think he’ll be able to sleep in that room. When he hears his parents enter their room he heads downstairs and sleeps on the couch. After he falls asleep the mirror in the parlor next to the door opens and a black figure comes into the house, it heads upstairs and fits some triangular object in the doorjambs of each of the three
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
James and the Giant Peach Genre: Adventure Roal Dahl The plot James Henry Trotter is abandoned at the age of four when his parents are tragically killed in a freak accident. He is placed into the care of two evil relatives, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker where he is being forced to work long hours chopping wood and cleaning. He is otherwise not allowed to come out of the house and is locked in the basement to sleep on the cold hard floor. He is not permitted to attend school, to play with other children, or to journey out of the yard. He is often denied food as well.
He leads them down the hallway to the tomb exhibit, but they get scared and run off, leaving Holden alone in the dark, cramped passage. Holden likes it at first, but then sees another “fuck you” written on the wall. Disgusted, he speculates that when he dies, somebody will probably write the words “fuck you” on his tombstone. He leaves the exhibit to wait for Phoebe. On the way to the bathroom, he passes out, but he downplays the incident.
One of his many attempts to find companionship is with a group of cottagers, but they refuse his friendship as soon as they see him. The monster is left alone again and says, “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me…” (Shelley 133). He then tries to overcome his abandonment at birth and lack of care with good deeds, but time after time the people around him reject him. Pifer says the monster is “…hideous not because his desires are grotesquely thwarted, but because human hope and innocence… in the image of childhood—are monstrously abused” (9). Frankenstein’s creation has never been shown kindness, but yet it still tries to earn the love of others.