The Giver Monologue Sample

I was quite confused and surprised to see the the backdrop of the stage. It was what seemed to be a large torn strip of paper. The reason why i was quite confused was due to the fact that it made me and the audience feel as if we were about to enter a gap of time. It was very fairytale like. This confirmed to the audience and me that we were going to view something very special.

We are later shown the relevance of the tear in the backdrop as Albert tears a sketch out from Major Nicholl’s drawing pad and enrolls to the army in order to find his long lost friend Joey. The ripped tear of paper across the cyclorama then became very symbolic in nature. By the use of the torn paper the audience is able to see the relevance and importance of that particular sketch made by Major Nicholls. As his sketch was what …show more content…
The puppetry of Joey made him seem as if a he was a real-life horse. This made the relationship between the audience and Joey much closer as the audience was able to view the puppet as a life like horse rather than a puppet. This allowed the audience to break that barrier of understanding, which would have been present if it were not for the puppeteers to have complete focus on the puppet and use their facial expressions to . The actors that were controlling the puppet itself had to concentrate on the use of characterisation in order to keep the whole scene and Joey as naturalistic as they possibly could. By copying the noises of the actual horse they acted as, they used the medium ‘voice’ to show Joey’s physical and mental struggle of pulling the plough. The use of the medium ‘movement’, ‘mime’ and ‘gesture’ allowed the audience to experience and view to what extent Joey’s struggle was. The puppeteers made Joey’s movement very firm and stiff as this illustrated the weight of the plough to the audience and also showed Joey’s lack of physical