Narrative poetry

1. What do you know about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why…

themselves, jeopardizing themselves, destroying themselves, so that the same sentence may contain an observation and its immediate negation.” I aspire to a similar concept – a story which simultaneously comprises, or at least alludes to, an explicit narrative, that narrative’s antithesis, and a broad spectrum in-between. A story which is neither confined to, nor restricted by, itself. This is my broad thematic goal, along with smaller themes pertaining to emotional permanence and feeling…

I had to be very consistent when building my character’s identities to make them believable. I had to make it clear to my audience, why the character was acting the way they were. I also had to avoid cliches because the audience tends to see cliches as superficial. In term of my characters motivations I wanted to make my main character, Scarlet, not know how to live independently or act politely around people. Therefore, I created a situation where she was spoiled as a child. Scarlet’s…

Comparison between the Book and Film Version of a Rose for Emily Many filmmakers come up with movies that are based on fictional and non-fictional books. Some filmmakers develop films that largely borrow from the book versions and sometimes utilize the plot as it appears in the book. However, others develop films that have some variations with the book version. A Rose for Emily is a good example of a literary work that exists as a print and as a film. The film version came much later after the…

Laura Mulvaney, in her 1975 article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, describes the male gaze as being driven by “ the unconscious of patriarchal society” which is demonstrated through the “sexual differences which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle” (57 Mulvaney). Thus, within film there…

Pulp Fiction is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, which stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson, and it was released October 14, 1994. It takes a very different approach to film by using a vignette style with each vignette not necessarily in order. It follows the lives of several characters that revolve around the gang boss Marcellus Wallace, and how they intertwine. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are two hitmen for Marcellus and they are charged with…

The collaboration needed to make a film, much less a quality film, is enormous. Many people are needed to make a production work: screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, etc. The director is one of the most important elements and his or her interpretation of a screenplay can make or break a film. As stated in Persistence of Vision: An Introduction to Film Appreciation, “An auteur is a director that has garnered enough influence that they have total artistic control over the entire…

Languages in Julius Caesar, is unique because many of the dialogues spoken by the high-class citizens are not written in a typical Shakespearean rhymed iambic pentameter; they are mostly written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. For example, in the long conversation between Brutus and Caesar about Calpurina’s dream, notice the rhyme pattern, “This dream is all amissed interpreted;/It was a vision fair and fortunate:/Your statue spouting blood in many pipes./In which so many smiling Romans bathed,”…

All people perceive the world through different eyes. Viewpoint is a powerful tool that has the ability to drastically alter an entire piece of literature. A good narrator is determined by their ability to deliver the author’s intended purpose effectively. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain, chooses an interesting and debatable narrator. Despite Huckleberry Finn’s youth, he is a suitable narrator for this novel because he gives the audience a unique…

that folk culture has had on him. He creatively weaves past and present tense within his nonlinear narrative. Using color symbolism, Mo conveys themes and ideas without having to flat out explain them. Mo knows how to concisely impact his readers. Having grown up surrounded by folk culture— at it’s core, the passing of stories, skills, and arts from…