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Narrative: Douglas What kinds of knowledge about themselves does Douglass believe are kept from slaves, and why does he believe this is important? What does he believe are some of the worse consequences of masters' siring of children on their slaves? What explanation does Douglass give for the singing of slaves? What features does he ascribe to the songs he heard? How do you interpret the refrain he reproduces? ("I am going away to the Great House Farm!/ O, yea! O, yea! O!") In the “Narrative…

narrator] will determine” (Wilson 58) to see who would inherit the family home. A reviewer describes the estate as an “antebellum estate” (Kirkus Reviews 170). In a review the story is described as “four mutually loathing brothers fold hundreds of paper cranes for a contest to determine who will own the family plantation house” (Olson 24). It is because the narrator’s family has had a rough, and violent past that makes them all so damaged, and unpleasant…

Then to top off the audience being wary of her character she unexpectedly murders Marion Crane. The audience then and now are surprised at the sudden famous shower scene where Crane is murdered violently. Due to the Production Code being in full effect still, audiences of mid 20th Century had never seen a brutal seen like that before in such detail. Stephen Robb wrote for BBC News,…

“absurdity” in life. Absurdity is the frustration people encounter when their human instinct to seek order, purpose, and meaning is challenged by the refusal of the world to be orderly or meaningful. Indeed, the narrator states “The whole affair is absurd” (Crane 212). Robert C. Solomon, in his book Existentialism, further illuminates the narrator’s state: The existential attitude is, first of all, an attitude of self-consciousness. One feels herself separated from the world… In isolation, one…

scene” is a direction edit as the shot where Marion Crane holds her hand out with the torn-up pieces of paper in it cuts to the direction, which is the toilet, where she throws the pieces of paper away. The direction edit to the toilet flushing shows that Marion Crane attempts to get rid of the evidence that she has stolen the money and to forget that she has stolen. The next few edits are action edits showing the simple movements of Marion Crane undressing and getting ready for her shower.…

and the fascination with the supernatural that secretly terrifies him, Brom Bones’ final prank on him causes him to flee town and leave behind everything he knows out of fear for what others will think of him. Those in town do not care about Ichabod Crane, or his sudden flight. They accept the mythologized version of what happened to him as fact, sell all of his possessions, and hire a new schoolmaster and carry on as if nothing had ever happened. They initially decided that they did not like…

both Blackstone and Crane Lakes were enjoyed.  Note: John Jennings or Henry Vankoughnett are…

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by author Stephen Crane. Taking place during the Civil War, the story is essentially about a private of the Union, Henry Fleming, fleeing the field of a battle. Because of his shame, Henry longs for a wound, a “red badge of courage,” to overcome his cowardice. As his regiment faces the enemy again, Henry acts a standard bearer who holds a flag. In the Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane uses symbols including the dead man, animal imagery, and color imagery…

into good. As a correspondent Crane was on his way to Cuba to follow the war. His ship the Commodore sank and he was stuck on a lifeboat for thirty hours with a cook, oiler, and captain. The four individuals had to maintain a sense of hope to be able to survive the ordeal. (History.com) Looking at this story from a reader-response criticism the internal struggles the characters were having can evoke a lot of emotional response. This is shown in the question that Crane continually asks multiple…

Lola Run, Tom Tykwer, beautifully blended some of these techniques to create a visually pleasing movie. To capture the story that goes along with this movie, Tykwer used multiple camera angles and editing techniques such as extreme long shots and crane shots. Each of these two things serves a purpose to help the story flow and keep the audience in the action. Besides editing and camera angles, Run Lola Run was a strange film because it had three separate climaxes within itself. Most movies only…