Behind each movie lies the meaningful aspects and significant features worth noticing. All movies and books can be carefully examined and interpreted. Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor provides a new view on interpreting literature. In the novel, Foster identifies and analyzes common patterns, themes, and motifs found in literature, many of which are also present in Disney’s film, Maleficent. This movie showcases several of his ideas, including quests, flight, geography, and symbolism.
I always love to read books and watch their movies, because I get to witness the differences that take place. I prefer the books because they have more detail and really let you decide how the characters look and act. Lots of times, the stories are different than the film versions. The short story, “Most Dangerous Game”, is a very good example of this. The film and the movie have lots of things in common, but this paper is about the complete opposite.
Observing each character, the book draws attention to the inner dialogue and struggles they
Unbeknownst to him, he is dying of cancer, and is having Goopers children shoved in his face to win over the plantation over Brick. He is also struggling with living with his wife, a woman he can’t stand, and the growing alcoholism of Brick. It is revealed he has never truly shown love to Gooper and his family, and Big Daddy and Big Mama always viewed Brick as their only son. Big daddy has the conflict between creating a will and giving the plantation to a son he doesn’t love or Brick, an alcoholic and his childless wife, or giving it to nobody. In the end is it revealed he is in fact dying of cancer and another lie is created by
In the play the author expresses, “Walter(doubled with laughter)’Mama you look ready to go out and chop you some cotton for sure” (28) while him and the family are all having fun and messing around. The quote proves just how happy Walter truly is with his family and how happy the family makes him. Mama also states in the
Connections to the reader’s own life and understanding for the hardships of the characters in the book are easily made, as the characters are fleshed out and
This creates an initial interest in the audience, but Arthur Miller has to continue to add new and exciting material to keep the audience interested. The author takes an authorial intrusion to better
Despite the depressing tone, the author’s use of descriptive images carried a youthful narration in an otherwise morose novel. By utilizing a range of imagery, he managed to submerge the reader in the world surrounding Holden
It was prompted that, although illustrating a well-kept storyline and pleasant detail, the language would be too challenging to comprehend. Inconsistent with such beliefs, the novel was a success. Although, this was not instant, as its renowned reputation had only escalated in the 1970s, which was somewhat due to Stanley Kubrick’s film version in
It is important to note that some of the characters and plot of the story borrow from works by other noteworthy authors, including R. L. Stevenson, Sir A. C. Doyle, Jules Verne and many more. It is important to note, that the adaptation of this series for film happened in the year 2003. This move elicited extensive reaction from the original
Mendacity, untruthfulness or deceit, regardless how you call it, it is something that silently governs over all of our lives and our actions. Tennessee Williams ' play „Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“ brilliantly illustrates people 's willingness to do almost anything to achieve what they want by any means, even if this goal is achieved by degrading themselves or lying to others. Mendacity is a core theme of this play, brilliantly showing what are people really like and what are some capable of. Anyway, not all characters act the same, but purpose and message of the play, above all, is to show real corruptness of human mind. As I have opened the subject with a straightforward approach, in order to be understood correctly, I will now look into a plot summary and characterization as the essential theme, the mendacity, originates from a character himself.
Knowles makes the vision the reader grasps of every character sharp and in focus. A Separate peace goes in depth to every character to give them a specific identity. Throughout the book Knowles brings up key qualities of each character to make the situation different. As a reader follows the story the identity of the character develops further and further. By doing this the author leaves the reader always wanting
(Act 1, Scene 1). Through the quote, it suggests that women should be ignorant about the world, and calling “baby” instead of her name shows the inferiority of the women to men. In addition, Walter is expected to be the head of the family; Mama says, “It ain’t much, but it’s all I got in the world and I’m putting it in your hands. I’m telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be” (Act 2, Scene 2).
The movie could have kept the same meaning as the novel if Luhrmann had focused less on the creative aspects and adapting the story to today’s time period. Altering these few aspects caused the true meaning to be lost in
With these insights, we might finally appreciate the novel for what it is and the message it tries to