False protagonist

Being able to understand the different interpretations of what a hero is defined by, one can truly begin to understand how story structure is developed in many sorts of media. Going along with the idea of story structure, Linda Seger developed the Hero’s Myth in order to create a stable idea of how most stories are written and to establish a formula of how people enjoy stories. The 2002 Gore Verbinski movie, The Ring exhibits the aspects of Seger’s Hero myth in which all eight milestones are met…

Likewise, the movie, Becket’s, focus on dramatizing the feud between Thomas Becket and Henry II. This movie was made in the 1960s which saw a rise in historical period dramas like, Lion in Winter, Anne of a Thousand Days, Mary Queen of Scots etc. The performances of the leads, Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton, are excellent, although sometimes overacted as was typical of that era in film. However, this movie was based on Jean Anouilh's play Becket, meaning they decided to keep Anouilh’s version…

The Rebellion The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, and the film Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann are two examples of storytelling in which the main protagonist struggles in expressing their own spice of individuality in their society. The boy in The Ocean at the End of the Lane is an odd character as he is placed into almost two different planes of existance and is forced to find his personal strengths and weaknesses, while Scott Hastings in Strictly Ballroom is a…

John Updike’s “A&P” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” contain main characters who experience an unexpected change in the way they view the world from people that they’ve formed a stereotype of. In “A&P”, Sammy, the main character, is influenced by three young girls while in “Cathedral”, the husband, is influenced by Robert to bring out this change in them. In both texts, the objects for change are similar in that the narrators viewed them negatively, they unexpectedly came in to the narrator’s…

Namely, Flannery O’Connor is known for her southern gothic style and her sense of religious morbidity. O’Connor uses persistent themes of dishonesty and mockery to portray religious righteousness and the downfall of the phony throughout the majority of her short stories. In “Greenleaf”, “A Good Man Is Hard to find”, and “Good Country People” O’Connor uses religion to highlight the good and bad within society, which is reflected upon each character through deception and irony. ggggggIn “A Good…

A person’s personal culture is something that shapes and tells others who you are. And because it is your own personal culture it is different from everyone else, even your own family. Such as, in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” you are introduced to Mrs. Johnson and her daughter Maggie getting ready for the return of Dee. While the two of them are waiting for Dee, Walker takes you through the thoughts of Mrs. Johnson about her two daughters and how she views them as well as herself.…

unappreciated politeness” (Munro). The reader knows what is happening in Phoebe’s mind, and what she is thinking. There is no way the protagonist would know that much detail about what Phoebe is thinking, which makes it omniscient. In spite of that, the story is filtered through Rose’s perspective. In a parallel story written by Alice Munro called “Royal Beatings”, the protagonist Rose talks about her mother’s death: “Rose was a baby in a basket at the time, so of course could not remember any…

Throughout the course of the film, “Castello Cavalcanti ”, Wes Anderson uses color, precise framing, music, Eye line shots and detailed composition of the frames to convey the narrative to the audience. The use of Eye line shot and pan shot brought flow and smoothness to the theme of the film. The music and the image throughout the film mostly went hand in hand and parallel to the narrative and the plot of the film. We can even notice the movements of the camera to be quite methodical, that is,…

A hero’s journey is a commonly used plot in writing and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is one of those because of many reasons: Ender is an unusual child and is treated different by everyone. Ender gets an introduction to his journey by his mentor, he goes through trials, overcomes them, then he has the great ordeal that he has to face. Ender was selected as the hero because of the main reason of being a third. He is meant to be the perfect combination of his brother, Peter, and his sister…

Literary Essay I read a fiction novel The Warriors Into the Wild by Erin Hunter. The book is told from a third person narrator. The book is about this kittypet named Rusty and he joins one of the four clans and becomes an apprentice.He has a new name called Firepaw and he learns enough about the other clans and he has to keep secrets that he don’t know if there ture.When everything seems fine he has to fase the biggest change he has ever face to save his camp will he do it or will his camp…