set in Corrigan in 1965, and it follows the protagonist Charlie Bucktin, a white, skinny boy who wears glasses through his journey of solving a suspected murder and growing up in society. Personally, I have enjoyed how the author uses technique and style in order to advance the narrative, or convey complex emotion.…
of their stories central hero or protagonist. Freud's assertion goes as follows, "One feature above all cannot fail to strike us about the creations of these story-writers: each of them has a hero who is the center of interest, for whom the writer tries to win our Sympathy by every possible means and whom he seems to place under the protection of a special Providence"(Freud 512). Freud's statement identifies the basic fundamental structure of crafting a protagonist in the most miniscule level,…
story is a learning factor in women’s mental breakdowns and illnesses. Also, it shows the ways the story sets up the points to where the protagonist is having these breakdowns after the birth of her first born child. Jane, the main character of the story, is compared to the life behind…
income apartment building in New Orleans. But ultimately, she fails to build an emotional stability for herself. This script is a perfect sequence of tragedy full of emotions and drama comprised of violence, witty and poetic dialogue, and effective protagonists with predictable backgrounds. First let’s talk about the title of the screenplay, Street Car Named Desire. Blanche Dubois takes an actual street car named “desire” to reach her way to her sister’s home, and also the…
emphasized the difference in class of the Capitol and District 12. Effie wore a luxurious purple dress with a giant rose on top of her hair. By wearing this, the audience knows that the antagonists in the movie lived a prosperous life compared to the protagonist and because of their prosperity, it led them to gaining all power to control the 12 Districts. Other than the clothes, Effie wore purple makeup which emphasizes the oddity that the Capitol had in them. The makeup and clothing of Effie…
Similar to ‘An Unknown Girl’, the story begins with the protagonist deeply unhappy with her station in life, feeling as if she deserved to belong to a different class. There is a series of events building up to when the persona feels most accepted at the reception of the Ministry of Education. However, unlike a…
KARNSTREET is a gritty, crime drama that centers on two major rival gangs. Their rivalry leads to a vicious gang war. The script does a nice job of showing the violent side of gangsters and their need for control. The stakes are life and death. While there are certainly strengths to the presentation, the script would benefit from more development in the area of structure, pace, and character development, as well as the professional presentation. First, the opening nicely sets the tone of the…
readers of all ages. Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating characters in the real life whose lives made an indelible impression upon her mind and compelled her to write interesting stories about them because all these female protagonists had an astonishing lesson to reveal. This is really great book that describes down to detail about how myriad characters, circumstances and events have had a prominent effect on the author’s life. The best touch to this collection is that…
achieve something more worthy, but sometimes others can have misconceptions and undertake losses for the worse. In the plays Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, and Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, it is displayed that the two protagonists make sacrifices throughout their stories without high moral judgement, leading to inferior outcomes. In the two texts, it is clear that the main characters Oedipus and Willy…
and son’s perspective of colored people. To develop the short story, O’Connor uses different kinds of literature elements, such as, the main character—protagonist and antagonist—, main conflict and complication, third person omniscient point of view, symbolism, and irony, and the story is very complicated. The main character Julian is the protagonist whose characteristic of being anti-racism is proven when he tries to teach and change his racist mother. He grew up in racist family, but he is not…