The Carter House Movie Analysis
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What is the purpose or goal of your video?
The purpose of this video trailer was to show how three women set aside their differences to come together to save the people in their town. The Carter House is historical fiction, but its themes, events, and characters have applicable lessons for real life. For example this storm, Hurricane Ike was a real life disaster that impacted thousands of lives but the characters in this novel were fictional. This book serves as an example of what can happen if you plan accordingly and have a sense of leadership. In the beginning of the book they struggle with their differences and school rivalries and do what's best for the community and work as a team. This movie trailer is meant to show young people that they can impact the political policies around them if they care enough to go out and make a change. The main characters were all relatively young and had no political power but they found a way to round up the community to a safe place to escape the storm.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the carter house is historical fiction, but its themes, events, and characters have applicable lessons for real life. the characters struggle with their differences and school rivalries and work as a team.
- Explains that the video opens up stating that hurricane ike is about to strike the town of galveston and they need to do something fast if they want to survive the storm.
- Analyzes how the title of the video is "secrets of the carter house" because the information that they uncover is very important to the storyline in this book.
- Analyzes how the video trailer aims to grab the attention of younger intellectuals who hold the future in their hands to show how government officials and policies really do make a difference when disaster strikes.
- Explains that listening to one another's ideas made the whole project go by smoother than trying to argue with each other. this project taught them that working together makes a better project.
- Advises future students to take the time that the teacher has put aside for them to work on the project. they solve the problem by working online, but it could have gone a lot smoother if we met up in person.
- Explains their group's creative development and the process by which they made the video.
Our video opens up stating that hurricane Ike is about to strike the town of Galveston and they need to do something fast if they want to survive the storm. We learned in class about how the lack of leadership was a key point in the downfall of Louisiana so we decided to talk about the ladies who took charge of the situation. The citizens are as diverse of the three women that try to save them. Political and cultural problems arise but they must look past them if they want to survive the storm. In the video we added a small section about the three main characters to show the diversity they must
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