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The two books, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and A Separate Peace have many differences. They’re set in two completely different time periods and places, and have diverse characters. However, they share some themes. The first mutual idea is friendship. The other two common elements of the books are darker: betrayal, and loss. While the two books have their differences, they share many common themes, including friendship, betrayal, and loss. The first theme that is frequent…

my studies increased. Watching what people considered were the best films of all time became a habit. I wanted to figure out how they were made and what made these films so…

Photography is the key element of mise en scene that determines how an audience will interpret the visual information in film. Orson Welles used the photography of his 1941 film Citizen Kane to emphasize aspects of the film he wanted viewers to focus on, and to remove non-essential information from the frame. This was accomplished through various camera tequniques including manipulation of angles and proxemity. Approaching the end of the film there is a scene just after Susan (played by Dorothy…

Film Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet (1968) and West Side Story (1961) Many films have been created based on novels and play scripts. Plays have transitioned from performances on stage to the big cinema screens. Since many legendary play scripts were created before our century, American film directors had to ask themselves, “How can an older piece of work interest the audience of today?”. Directors found it challenging to express an original piece of work while attempting to interest the minds…

Blood Simple is the first movie directed by the Coen brothers. A more contemporary noir, with a knowing awareness of the origins of the genre, blood simple saw film noir get down and dirty again, and not just in the bedroom (Wood. 2014). The use of violence and crime in this neo noir film utterly correlates with the classic noir. Majority of the Coen brother’ films feature a crime that seldom goes right. Blood Simple features a jealous Saloon owner, Marty who hires a divorce detective, Visser to…

The Stories “Old Ben” by Jesse Stuart and “Fox Hunt” by Lensey Namioka use the elements of Foreshadowing and Flashbacks to develop interesting plots. “Old Ben” is a story about a family who hates snakes, but eventually learns to like them from their new pet snake Ben who ends up dying. “Fox Hunt” is about a boy who has a PSAT coming up and nobody wants to study with him, so a fox comes and helps him study. The stories have many similarities and differences involving flashbacks and foreshadowing.…

“Strings” by Christina Turtriak is a claymation depiction of giving up when faced with a challenge. Christina Turtriak explained in her presentation that the theme in many of her projects is the human form without a soul. She shows this idea through her creations of deformed people in drawings, sculptures, short animations, and her performances where she dresses up as a blind, painted figure, bringing her two-dimensional ideas to life. Her claymation video “Strings” starts out with a…

“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a short poem written by William Carlos Williams that is broken down into four stanzas. After the first time reading the poem you see Mr. Williams’ ability to depict a scenario with sixteen simple words. The structure of the poem and word usage brings the reader closer to the scene being painted by Mr. Williams’. The first stanza brings the reader in and captures there attention by stating “so much depends upon.” You begin to wonder what can be so important. The…

The short story The Ransom of Red chief by O.henry the author uses humor to affect the reader. For example Red chief is not like all kids who want to go home. When kidnapped he likes it. The two robbers Bill and Sam feels weird about Red chief. Red chief likes to be kidnapped. ¨Äll right!¨ says he. ¨That'll be fine. I never had such fun in all my life.¨ Red Chief does not really care of being kidnapped from his home he likes it because he has soo much fun with the Bill and Sam. Another example…

In the story “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and the story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” written by Ray Bradbury the main characters are plenty different but also the same in many ways. Both boys, Patsy from “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” and Joby from “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, are equally changed for the good at the end of each story. “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” takes place in the American Civil War at a Union camp in the middle of the night. Joby, the main character who’s…