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    he is no longer telling us a story but becomes characters within the story; one example being where he becomes a stock broker on the dance floor of a disco in the 1980s. Here for fleeting moments there is a fourth wall and the audience is looking in upon a scene from the 1980s and the actor is no longer relating directly with…

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    Thoreau's The Inhabitants

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    connects the following paragraphs, on that page, to the main part of the story. The main part of the story’s purpose is to discuss “what it is to be an American” through the idea of inhabitants. Paragraph by paragraph, Narrator pieces together a narrative about his family, and members of a small town, who leave said town to travel East toward Chicago because “the land itself started leaving [and] they had to give up” (Morris). Eventually, Narrator realizes that even though people are…

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    Singin In The Rain

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    Within the musical film genre, the use of music is essential to the film narrative and plot structure. Many of the classic musicals, like Singin’ in the Rain, use this use of musical numbers to not only further the plot but also the individual character narrative. With this integration of music, these musicals are typically referred to as integrated musicals. This integration is usually expressed through a scene within a scene setting (ie. Make em’ Laugh sequence in Singin’ in the Rain) Pennies…

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    for example “Once upon a time which is all times and no time but not the very best of times, there was a castle” through this the reader is able to remember the original fairytales told to them in their childhood and therefore can relate to Becca and her sisters (Sylvia and Shana)when they eagerly listen to their grandmother in chapter 2. 'tell us seepin boot'. Jane Yolen also utilises certain techniques which make the novel more engaging thus fulfilling its purpose. Briar Rose is a narrative by…

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    Virtual Reality In Film

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    stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached today. It has expanded vastly to quickly become the world’s most preferred medium of storytelling. However, the newest technology in visual narrative is virtual reality. While the technology is something that has been around for a few decades, its potential…

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    consciousness. The stream of consciousness is also known interior monologue. After explains Dujardin's works he describes the stream of consciousness technique as a narrative method that authors aim to add colors in their fictional characters. In addition, he used the stream of consciousness in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as an examples. He said the author uses this techniques to captures their fictional character's minds in order to provide exciting points of view in the stories.…

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    even before some of the characters do. Though in The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson, we can only rely on everything the narrator is telling us. In the first couple of minutes of the film, the audience is transported into a frame narrative otherwise known as a story within a story. This entire film is based off of the memory of a man being told a story from our main character, Zero Moustafa. This is likely to be an unreliable source were many details may be left out or…

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    Through movies we can time travel to places we could only dream of. They narrate stories that are a combination of our personal experiences as well as projections of our mind. The narratives cannot be comprehended nor imagined without architectural spaces. It is this very architectural layer in movies that strings the narrative, the characters and the idea into a gripping plot that leaves behind a powerful imprint on the viewers’ minds. Movies exaggerate emotions and architecture is one of the…

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    went through. Logos is showed the least because Vladek is a credible source and does not need much factual support to believe and understand his story. Art shows the audience that the inner story is believable, through him writing down his father’s narrative in the outer story; this creates ethos. Even though some of the appeals are utilized more than others, all of them are present in Maus. These different constructions of ethos, pathos and logos support Vladek’s story and help the audience…

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    members of the Bundren family Faulkner address each member’s reaction and deals with the death of Addie Bundren. Though the novel contains multiple points of views, Faulkner still manages to properly express the complexity of each character. For example, to show how a troubled son reacts to the death of his mother, Faulkner uses a childish yet complex voice of Darl,…

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