English 102-B2 Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Due Date: June 21th, 2016
the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich and the Alfred Hitchcock version of the film Rear Window
Inspired by a new Cornell Woolrich, it resembles some elements Rear windows Hitchcock, also based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich. This is the story of a kid 8 years old who used to tell tall tales and so his parents believe him anymore. As it is hot, he decided to sleep on the fire escape. But from there, it will be a witness to a murder for money Kellerson. The murders a man and go hide his body in the heart of an abandoned building that could collapse. Tommy tells what he saw to his mother who does not believe him and tampers. In desperation, he goes to the police to denounce Kellerson. Police do not believe the most, but Kellerson are alerted by Tommy's mother who has very bad idea to charge his son he goes to apologize to the Kellerson. Tommy finding himself alone, his father goes to work; his mother went to the bedside of her sister, the Kellerson plan to deal with him, causing an accident. But eventually Tommy escapes this new attack and Kellerson are defeated.
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The film Tetzlaff unlike that Hitchcock has no glamour, actors are rough, proletarian, and they do not display this sleek profile, the tasteless Hollywood James Stewart and Grace Kelly pale. The decorations do not have this bourgeois cleanliness found in all the films of Hitchcock. They show the housing crisis still raging at the end of the Second World War. It will be appreciated street scenes, especially when Tommy's parents accompany him to demonstrate that he has nothing to fear and that his mother has to go to the bedside of his sister. These scenes seem to have been filmed in the street even without the passers are accomplices. And of course it brings an interesting truth