Film genres

I chose to watch the films Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. These films reflect changing within the American experience and identify it three different ways. For one it discusses the idea of fear of the unknown, and the exploration of the new frontier. Two, it discusses the idea of advancement’s in technology and science, and how those two can quickly turn their backs on you. The third idea being a lead role for a women and a feminist character within a franchise. Alien as a…

Gloria Skurzynski's Nethergrave and Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder follow science fiction wholeheartedly, from Nethergrave's digital facade, to A Sound of Thunder's time traveling, and chaos theory. However, looking past A Sound of Thunder's summary, stands the differing contrasts of each of it's characters, and the conflicts of morals. As for Nethergrave, it only properly characterizes the main character, often leaving the others in vague light, and it's science fiction elements are left…

Critical Response Essay The topic about this Critical Response was to pick which one of the two short stories I had to read was superior, or best in my opinion. I chose Nethergrave, by Gloria Skurzynski. My reasoning behind my pick was because I thought ‘Nethergrave’ kept you on the edge of your seat and kept you guesting, whereas Ray Bradbury’s story, “A Sound of Thunder” just put it out there. Bradbury’s science fiction would in my opinion, not give too many clues or details. For both of…

In “Once More to the Lake,” E. B. White illustrates the gap between the present and the past through his vacations on a lake in Main as a child and as an adult. White recalls the moments with his father on this lake and sees that “there had been no years” (White 3) from the previous years and when he takes his son on the same trip. White’s memories of camping with his father from his childhood are filled with sensory details, and he links this father-son relationship with his current son,…

A Theme is a “main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directy of indirectly” - http://literarydevices.net/theme/ After reading through, these are the five themes I believe to be most predominant throughout the book: Theme one: “Always keep an open mind.” What I mean by this is that, throughout the story Scout (the main character) observes what happens around her, good or bad, and in most instances, she learns from it. Although, she tends to like…

In the story, The Kite Runner & The Joy Luck Club, both main characters of the stories struggle with the same thing. Though they are both different because of culture and time periods, they both have the same theme. Children struggle to live up to their parents expectations. Theme is a literary element that doesn’t really require much. The only things it must be is universal and timeless. Theme is all about what the author is really trying to portray to the readers in an indirect way. So this…

Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…

Books often have many themes, but believing in yourself and others, standing up for yourself and hope are the three I came up with for the two books Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes and Hope was Here. In each paragraph I explain what theme I will be talking about and how it relates to both books. I will also give examples how each theme is included in both of the books. And how it ties into them. In each novel they create common themes that relate to real life problems. One of the biggest common…

Have you ever been put in a position that questioned your courage? Think about all of the things running through your mind. Was fear one of them? Did you try to protect what was the most important to you at the time anyways? Theme is a life lesson or big idea for literary works supported by textual evidence. In the story “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling, the theme is that courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important. For instance,…

Matthew Rubush Patrick Williams English 111.0023 17 October 2015 Reliving Childhood in E.B. White and Scott Russell Sanders What meaning can memories of places and events have for development? Memories of childhood come in many forms and result out of select details that inform one’s memory. E.B. White and Scott Russell Sanders both tell stories of their respective fathers and focus on imparting lessons to their sons. Looking at the narrative, style and purpose of each reveals many similarities…