REVENANCE is a proposed supernatural, dramatic pilot. The story has a nice small town feeling that fits with the story’s tone and genre. The pilot presents with a creative structure as it transitions back and forth between the backstory from 1689 to the present day story. The stories are well linked. Each story has it’s own goal. The story in 1689 has a goal to unravel the mystery surroundings the disappearance of Margaret, while the present day pilot’s goal is to unravel the mystery of Margaret’s ghost and what she’s trying to tell Carter. There’s a clear inciting event with the disappearance of Margaret. However, the opening does feel a bit long before it transitions to the present day storyline. Consider opening with Margaret walking in the woods and being followed and cut the scene with Margaret at Mercy’s cabin. The backstory plotline feels goal driven regarding solving the disappearance. Letitia seem to take the lead. However, her vision of Margaret comes late in the structure. If she has a history of visions, this should come earlier. One would also like to know more about her and her history of visions. In addition, there are several characters …show more content…
Given that they find Margaret’s bones at the end of the present day story and Margaret is killed in the past story, it’s not clear what future episodes will look like. There’s not enough investment in the backstory about who killed Margaret to sustain the entire series. At the end of the pilot, the present day storyline offers no continuing goal for the characters. This is pivotal when pitching a TV series. Thus, consider creating a stronger ending that clarifies what the series will look like and will entice the audience to come back and want to watch the
Tom is a very ambitious person when it comes to his work. He is caught up in getting a promotion from work by doing a project. Tom just focuses on the “big picture,” which is his future, rather than the “small picture,” which is what his wife is doing. This trait changes at the end when he decides to go to the movies with his wife. When the paper flew out the window for the second time, he realized that he can do the paper over again but he can never take back that one specific night he could have spent with his wife.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is set in the depths of the Great Depression. A lawyer named Atticus Finch is called to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. The story is told from one of Atticus’s children, the mature Scout’s point of view. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finch Family faces many struggles and difficulties. In To Kill a Mockingbird, theme plays an important role during the course of the novel. Theme is a central idea in a work of literature that contains more than one word. It is usually based off an author’s opinion about a subject. The theme innocence should be protected is found in conflicts, characters, and symbols.
In a country like the United States of America, with a history of every individual having an equal opportunity to reach their dreams, it becomes harder and harder to grasp the reality that equal opportunity is diminishing as the years go on. The book Our Kids by Robert Putnam illustrates this reality and compares life during the 1950’s and today’s society and how it has gradually gotten to a point of inequality. In particular, he goes into two touching stories, one that shows the changes in the communities we live in and another that illustrates the change of family structure. In the end he shows how both stories contribute to the American dream slipping away from our hands.
Margaret is painted as a strong character from the very beginning. As Jessica Ray Lymberopoulos writes in her essay,
on the gothic genre of the book, and her life is also mirrored in that
Similarly, Cynthia and Anna Wintour’s character development took similar stages. From the beginning of both stories, two perspectives are shown
The coldness felt in the house as the sheriff and court attorney entered the house symbolized the same coldness brought about by Mr. Wright. For the house to be cold and gloomy and everything else outside the total opposite, was much more than just coincidence. It was as if when you entered the house a cadaver, cold and clammy, had embraced you in its arms. “ I don’t think a place’d be any cheerfuller for John Wright’s being in it”, Mrs. Hale told the court attorney (11). Mrs. Hale knew perfectly well what kind of personality Mr. Wright had, which is why she specified that she wished that she had gone to visit Mrs. Wright when only she was there. “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm”, says Mrs. Hale, yet they are seen as mere trifles because it is the women who take on these tasks.
...ary devices covered in this paper cannot even begin to cover the entirety of a great short story. The point of view, the symbolism, and the setting are just a few things that make these stories so memorable. The ability of Shirley Jackson to make a reader question the way society allows as normal with its traditions, families, and customs causes the reader to think that this can happen anywhere. Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes the reader wonder throughout the story is she crazy or is she possessed. The ability to make the reader sit white knuckled holding the book is amazing and the writing styles of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson will forever go down in literary history.
Peter G. Beidler informs us that there have been “hundreds” of analyses of Henry James’ spine-tingling novella, The Turn of the Screw (189). Norman Macleod suggests that James himself seems to be “an author intent on establishing a text that cannot be interpreted in a definite way” (Qtd in Beidler 198). Yet, the vast majority of analyses of The Turn of the Screw seem to revolve around two sub-themes: the reality of the ghosts and the death of Miles both of which are used to answer the question of the governess’s mental stability: is she a hero or a deranged lunatic? As Beidler points out, “It is an amazingly fine creepy, scary, soul-shuddering ghost story or, alternatively, it is an amazingly fine psychological case study of a neurotic young woman” (189). These two views of the governess seem to dominate the analytical world in terms of readings, typically being one view or the other and seldom being anything else. Unfortunately, most of the myriad readings focus only on the visible events as related by the governess. However, there is much that we are not told but that is pertinent to an accurate reading. Bruce Fleming argues that what we are not told in The Turn of the Screw is as important as what we are told (135). Wolfgang Iser suggests that there are “gaps” or holes within the sequence of the text. He further suggests that it is the reader’s responsibility to fill-in those gaps (Qtd in Beidler 226). The facts “not in evidence” are equal in importance to the information laid out before us. What happens “off-screen” or “off-stage” is just as important as what happens in front of the audience. Much of what we do not see and are not told impacts what we do see and are told so g...
The most striking aspect of Carver’s “Cathedral” is the fact that the story is written from the point of view of a man not initially involved in the set up of the story at all. The narrator relays to the reader stories he has learned from his wife about her past before relaying what is happening in the present. He tells her history as if he were speaking to himself in an interio...
According to Frederick Asals, the first half of the story serves a significant purpose as it informs the audience that the family’s journey to Florida is only a “mere empty movement through space” (42). Prior to the car accident, the family acts out of vanity and disobedience despite believing they are devote Christians. Through their actions and behaviors, O’Connor reveals that they are heading down a path of destruction. T.W. Hendricks examines the structure of the family and their relationships with each other, he comments that “the structure of the family is in disarray” (203). The patriarch of the family, Bailey, despises his mother and prefers to overlook her presence by participating in self-absorption. In comparison, his wife does not pay attention to her external surroundings, but simply puts sole focus on her infant child. Furthermore, she and her husbands are parents t...
While both passages mention ‘beginning’, they are told out of sequence – one on pages 136-138, “She had decided to do something with the fruit worthy of the man’s labor and his love. That’s how it began” (136) and the other on pages 156-157, “Stamp started with the party, the one Baby Suggs gave, but stopped and backed up a bit to tell about the berries—…” (156). These beginnings are “displaced to another time” (Bennett and Royle 4). These references to ‘beginning’ can also appear to be analogous to Biblical beginnings, in the Garden of Eden. The beginning of the story could be read as the true beginning, the Fall from Grace. The entire novel revolves around the day after ...
The fall of ’99 was the year of all years; Janine was in her last year of law school at Yale, and her adoptive mother, Nancy, had just phoned telling her of their family visit in the fall. Just then out of the blue she hears a knock at the door.
Author Jack Finney describes how such a thing would come to pass – travelling back in time – and for a moment or more, I could believe every word. However far-fetched or seemingly plausible the novel was, it was told brilliantly, and the sketches helped one immerse themselves more and more into the tale. The novel had the similar effect of Dan Brown’s novels (The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Deception Point) with meticulous research and facts, coupled with smart and abstract characters, and a theory or two, making for a convincing novel. But unlike Dan Brown’s novels, told with much suspense, heroism, and a distinctive hard-edged writing style, Time and Again was spun enthrallingly, but with a softer side, in the way character Simon Morley addressed the reader, almost in a conversational way.
Then Lieutenant Blandford saw her, Hollis Meynell. She was about 50 years old, and had graying hair. She was a short happy looking lady, not even close to his height. She had a green dress on and the red rose they had agreed on. As they got closer to each other Lieutenant Blandford didn’t know how to feel. He thought she would be much younger, closer to his age, or a little older. Finally they were together, Lieutenant Blandford’s heart was beating at a thousand miles per hour.