ANALYZING CHARACTER
1. The protagonist is Jeanne Mouawad, who is left with a journey when presented the will of her mother. The film follows her as she makes the discovery of her mother’s secret life. Jeanne’s flaw was her inability to fully empathize or encompass with what her mother endured, and thus she began her adventure blind. By the end, when she realizes the severity of her mother’s brutalities, she had become a more global citizen and is able to understand war, even if she personally have not been affected by it.
2. Jeanne is the hero because she begins ignorant of war until she decides she must leave her comfort zone of Canada and discover what she is missing. When Jeanne receives the letters from Jean, it shows him as a herald, as it calls her to adventure. A mentor is …show more content…
Jeanne leaves her home in Canada to find people who her mother influenced and collect information on the secrets her mother kept. 6. The main conflict involves man vs nature, because of the war that had scattered her mother’s secrets throughout the middle east, and left Jeanne with a difficult journey, but as the film progresses each individual conflict is seen as man vs man, or Christian vs Muslim. Many of Nawal’s secrets remained hidden because those involved failed to speak about her memory, she was a disgrace in many people’s eyes or an enemy to others.
7. Incendies has a nonlinear storyline because although the protagonist is Jeanne, there are multiple scenes where the story follows the path her dead mother took to find Nihad. There are two separate chronological stories being told, one of Jeanne and one of her mother, and scenes often time-hop when changing stories. If only Jeanne’s story is followed, the Freytag’s triangle fits her journey well, as explained below:
a. The inciting incident is when Jeanne and Simon are presented with letters from their mother and instructions of whom they are addressed to, leading them to their lost father and unknown
1. The protagonist is Jeanne Mouawad, who is left with a journey when presented the will of her mother. The film follows her as she makes the discovery of her mother’s secret life. Jeanne’s flaw was her inability to fully empathize or encompass with what her mother endured, and thus she began her adventure blind. By the end, when she realizes the severity of her mother’s brutalities, she had become a more global citizen and is able to understand war, even if she personally have not been affected by it.
2. Jeanne is the hero because she begins ignorant of war until she decides she must leave her comfort zone of Canada and discover what she is missing. When Jeanne receives the letters from Jean, it shows him as a herald, as it calls her to adventure. A mentor is …show more content…
Jeanne leaves her home in Canada to find people who her mother influenced and collect information on the secrets her mother kept. 6. The main conflict involves man vs nature, because of the war that had scattered her mother’s secrets throughout the middle east, and left Jeanne with a difficult journey, but as the film progresses each individual conflict is seen as man vs man, or Christian vs Muslim. Many of Nawal’s secrets remained hidden because those involved failed to speak about her memory, she was a disgrace in many people’s eyes or an enemy to others.
7. Incendies has a nonlinear storyline because although the protagonist is Jeanne, there are multiple scenes where the story follows the path her dead mother took to find Nihad. There are two separate chronological stories being told, one of Jeanne and one of her mother, and scenes often time-hop when changing stories. If only Jeanne’s story is followed, the Freytag’s triangle fits her journey well, as explained below:
a. The inciting incident is when Jeanne and Simon are presented with letters from their mother and instructions of whom they are addressed to, leading them to their lost father and unknown