Narrative conventions are the expected characters, settings, storylines and themes of a particular type of genre. The Searchers directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne is a western film based on the 1954
Into The Woods The musical “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a metaphor for life in many ways, but the most prominent one is the woods symbolizing life itself. The prologue song “Into The Woods” is about each of the character’s dreams and wishes. Cinderella wishes to go to the festival, Little Red Riding Hood wants to deliver bread to Granny, and the Baker and his wife want to have a child, even though the witch cursed their lineage. In order to accomplish and reach for some of these goals, they must go into the “woods” and take some risks. Just as we must take risks in our personal lives to accomplish our goals, being that is the only way to achieve what we aspire to do.
“Hunters in the Snow” deals with the motif of alienation, or isolation. Tub and Frank both experience isolation from others, reinforced by the secrets they are keeping. Kenny and Frank rush ahead of Tub while hunting, and almost leave without him. Tub has to run to catch up with them, and pulls himself into the truck before it drives away. Indignant, he says,”’I used to stick up for you.’ ‘Okay, so you used to stick up for me.
His conquest fear and anger motivated his betrayal and culminated in a stark scene in which he witnessed his mother and brother being executed. The author writes Shins experiences in the camp to aware the readers of the mindsets people in these camps could
The film The Outsiders is based on a novel written by S. E. Hinton which was published in 1967. The book was adapted to film by a well-known director of the time named Francis Ford Coppola. With his guidance, a ninety-one-minute version of the original story was introduced to the masses on March 25, 1983. The film has been touted as a coming of age drama based in the 1960’s as it follows two teen groups of the time, the wealthy “soc’es” and the poor “greasers”, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story showcases the black and white style of viewing the world teens categorically take on and the distinct socioeconomic differences between the two groups as they struggle with their place in the world.
J.P. Kulshrestha has observed that Greene's thrillers are written "in the predominantly secular point of view," but the narrative world of the entertainments is fallen, not merely secular. What Harper refers to as "the extreme suffering of loneliness" experienced by the spy on the run becomes emblematic of the modern predicament as Greene conceives it: the loss of God as punishment for the failure and guilt which define our fallen state. Greene's juxtaposition of the comic world and the fallen world emphasizes Wormold's psychological detachment from the concerns and values of the women. The fallen world into which Greene's other heroes finds themselves catapulted lies across "the frontier of violence." Violence, or the threat of violence, plays an important part in any spy novel, yet, even without the violence forming an integral part of a thriller's physical action, the historical back grounds and settings of the entertainments reflect a world fallen from unity and order into the abyss of violence and
However, as shown in this short story, this ideal treatment of African Americans did not often happen. Instead, Stephen Crane describes not only the unnecessary ruthlessness and cruelty of many white Americans towards former African American slaves but also the silent acceptance of this hatred and the feeling of powerlessness of the freed slaves in the United States during this Reconstructive Era. Stephen Crane preferred to write short stories and novels that had actual historical meaning and references; he used different elements like the selections of a particular audience, point of view, and tone to accomplish writing these kinds of literary works. In “A Dark Brown Dog” he chose to write about the hardships of freed slaves during the Jim Crow South in a third person point of view. This is because while reading a story in a third person point of view, the reader is more likely to be able to analyze and understand the
We were assigned to read a story and make a book report of it, I decided to do it on The Outsiders. When I made this decision, I did not know what a huge change would this story make in me. The Outsiders is about the adventure of a young man who lived in a society with two classes divided by their socio-economic status: the “socs” and the “greasers”. Because he belonged to lower class, the greasers, he went through situations that kids that age don 't usually go through, like smoking or, you know, killing people. He and his friends have adventures, and he tells this story to bring attention to some of them, more on this later.
Female authors as well as characters gain that feeling of freedom, due to the less constricting binds of literary writing. Susan Glaspell, the playwright of Trifles relays feminist drama in a fascinating and psychological way. This play introduces women helping women in confinement to find freedom. Confinement can tear a woman apart, but the desire for freedom from society is embedded deep in the heart of all strong women. Trifles was written
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), the engineer who become a famous writer in the Victorian age, Stevenson made a very close relationship with the reader because he made a new kind of writes which depends on the play with words which made the readers excited and feel joyful all the time,(RLS Website,2016). Stevenson was a pioneer in many fields, he also was a famous for his two master peaces novel treasure island, beach of falesa and kidnap, he also famous for the genre of adventure romance and he was moving from the adventure romance to the realistic novel or to the genre which is called new realism, (RLS website, 2016).beach of falesa is another island story that revolves all its events in specific island its first published it called “uma”, (ENCYCLOPADIA BRIITANNICA, 2017). “It is the first south sea story: I mean with real south sea character and details of life” (towheed, 2012). It’s considered as a hybrid work because it is contain elements of realism, romanticism, gothic and many other elements. In this essay I will discuss the element of realism in the story, the religious beliefs, the new kind of language and the contact zone between the British people and islander and how can it effects on the British people.