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    Theme Writing Prompt The stories “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes and “The Storyteller” by Saki both portray a theme. These themes are hidden in unique ways. For example, “The Storyteller” has a theme that appears throughout the story, but “Thank You Ma’m” has a theme that comes at the end of the story. The story “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes has a theme. Its theme is good things come to those who work for it. In order to find this theme, I had to pay close attention to the…

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    In the epic poem and movie Beowulf there are a lot of differences and similarities between the two. Can you spot some of the differences that happened in the movie and the book? Well here is some of the things that I spotted out during the movie that didn’t happened in the book. First, the battle between Beowulf and Grendel in the movie they were awake and partying during his attack; however, in the book they were sleep. Second, the battle against Grendel’s mother didn’t happened in the movie,…

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    being right, later on in the book we found out the therapist is really one of the monsters in disguise and lured Jacob to the island so he could find the rest of the peculiars. Lastly I think this book is a mystery because of its puzzle piece like plot. By this I mean in mysteries there are usually parts where they give us lots of information and then give us blank spots that we must fit together to make sense for us like this book did. This novel was a spine tingling work of words that gave me…

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    fails to. As a matter of fact, her very first lines upon exiting juvie were: “ummm… where’s Jude” (“Pilot”). Subsequently, Relevance can be given to this storyline because it leads to the convergence of many character plots into one space. This gives The Fosters a character driven plot based in the societal/familial interactions of the protagonist, similar to The Catcher in the Rye. Incidentally, Callie’s prejudiced notions lead to a belief that she is not welcome in the foster family. She…

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    category away from fantasy. When I think of fantasy TV show, it is typically of a show that has a corny predictable plot of a clearly defined bad guy. Game of Thrones runs from…

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    how to be a girl. Using a magnifying class on the character, I found the character to resemble the girl I once was. The girl represents more than just herself, but a girl her family wants her to be. Particularly, the significances of the plot play a huge role in the development of revealing the flaws of someone close to the girl. “…This is how you set the table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how you behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very…

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    just state facts or figures of what happened during that time while tragedy exaggerates of what may happen in that certain situation. The aim of tragedy is to consummate its catharsis of such feelings like “Fear” and “Pain”. Aristotle mentioned that plot, characters, diction, thought, spectacle, melody are the main elements of tragedy that identifies to the kind of quality that tragedy has. An example of a play that best fits Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is the epic written by…

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    In this storytelling ‘Shadow of a Doubt,’ the principles of narrative telling are depicted. From the plot, the movie is constructed in a story perspective that heightens a pattern from the opening scenes to the closing of the picture. Nevertheless, the utilization of salient techniques often dictates the flow of the story. From the distinct movie lighting, the soundtrack and its creaking sound make it a compelling narrative for the audience. At the cusp of the movie era, black and white…

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    1.1 Plot is an events that occur in a story, it is a series of an events which gathering from a beginning to an ending of a story. Plot is a significant factor in order to present a story, it has both of simple and complex plots in order to analyze film. The key elements that using for an analyzed will have the chronology as follows 1.1.1 Exposition is a first procedure of a story beginning, convince the audience to follow a story, introduce characters, display settings including to a…

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    that any other form of narration could not rise to. Considering the simplicity of the plot, the omniscient narration leaves a wide birth of creative possibility that Morrison can fill with character descriptions, detailed metaphors, and drawn-out explanations for things like the actions of certain characters. For example, toward the beginning of the story, Shadrack is introduced and his background…

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