Narrative Report Essay

“Reading a good book is like taking a journey…” Emma Gulliford. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is definitely a journey, both book, written by James Thurber, and movie form. The movie, while action-packed, emotional, heroic, and well-developed in a flowing manner, is very different from the short story that is filled with different expressions of personality and a lot less developed, but all in all both fantastic and attention grabbing. While the movie and the short story are named the same…

After reading novels and other writings, readers tend to watch the film of that writing to spot the differences between the two. In this specific case, there were many differences between the poem and the film of Beowulf. One of the main questions that comes from watching and reading the story is “Is Beowulf still considered an epic hero despite his flaws given to him in the movie after being described as nearly flawless in the writing?” The questions of “What makes a hero a hero?” and “Is it…

Truman Capote includes both Dick and Perry’s perspective in the passages from pages 107 to 113, and despite recounting the same moments and events, they differ in major ways. Both these passages implicitly reveal information about Dick and Perry through what they include, and don’t include; the rhetorical techniques like intentional syntax differences, as well as diction, and detail to convince the reader of whom they should believe and like. The two accounts differ in syntax and type of…

including historical details of his family background, personal life, natural history and historical events. Here, we could also refer to Linda Hutcehon ‘s essay “The Pastime of the Past Time”, in which she specifies that literature and history are narrative form and how they rely more on verisimilitude rather than objective truth (Hutcheon, 111). By verisimilitude, Hutcheon relates to the truth to life and is interested in making readers examine historical texts as a means of authenticating…

porous, dissolving identity of his protagonists of various films, are put under scanner to delineate the commonness positioned by the ‘auteur’ in T V Chandran. The point on this occasion is not to choose between these opposing readings in various narrative texts, but to recognize how an author based approach in T V Chandran’s work may go beyond exalting its maker or cataloguing the formal and thematic continuities of the filmmaker’s works that has become heavily energized by real-world…

Moonlight, the 2017 independent film directed by Barry Jenkins, utilized lighting, contrast, and colors to tell an insightful story exploring themes including race, sexual identity, and drug abuse, among others through the metamorphosis of its central character, Chiron. One particular scene expertly directed occurred within the first fifteen minutes of the film, where Juan teaches Chiron how to swim. The scene itself retains an intimate mood and is comprised of eight medium close-up shots in…

A Pound for a Life: A Review of Seven pounds "The film Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith and Rosario Dawson, is Grant Nieporte's idea after having a chat with a man whom he called "one of the saddest people I've ever met in my life". The film is directed by Gabriele Muccino, known for The Pursuit of Happiness (2006) also starring Will Smith." (IMDB, www.imdb.com) The movie is one with a strong message and lesson, it leaves the audience wondering what their mission in life is and how life can…

This paper will compare the attitudes of each character in their respective story. Included will be a reference page for further study. Both stories will be discussed in detail and the author will explain message he/she felt the philosopher was trying to relay to the audience and how their own philosophy compares. Focusing on the ‘Why’ of all things in existence philosophers are faced with an arduous task of finding answers to the unknown; making philosophy a field of study that is…

Hamid Naficy’s work in An Accented Cinema offers two major aspects of modern filmmaking. The first, Naficy offers a clear and thorough classification of the term “accented cinema”. Naficy’s distinction between exilic, diasporic and postcolonial filmmaking in order to categorise Irish exilic and diasporic films according to their varying relationships a homeland. Second, he remarkably engages the notions of cultural politics of diasporic, exilic and postcolonial filmmaking. And at the same time,…

Just about everyone had been in a situation that should have had a negative outcome, but somehow a miracle happened and one walked away with a clean slate. Some may call it fate, but others may call it destiny. These circumstances happen every day in one’s life. Naiburg stated about fate that, “We might call it chance or an emergent property of the field” (446). She also stated how destiny is “accepting all that we are and acknowledging all we have experienced, however shameful” (Naiburg 447).…