media essay

A plot is a sequence of events, a storyline. It follows a certain structure, with a beginning, which sets the tone of what is to come. It presents the characters and other necessary facts to understand the story, a foreshadowing, which is clues and hints that suggest what will happen later on in the story. Then there is a series of events that occur that build up conflict and this is the rising action, the climax is s result of the crisis and the conflict. It is a high point of the story and then there is the resolution that rounds out and concludes the action. The plot is used to draw the reader into the character's lives in such a way as to comprehend the choices the character makes. The plot is a series of events and situations that occur along the route of a story, the plot is also a natural outcome of the seeds of the story, and it emerges from the setup of the characters, their conflicts and the setting they occur in. The plot is the sequence of events during the story, told in the order you see it, it is a series of events which are interconnected and show cause and effect, while a story is defined as a narrative tale of real or fictitious events.

The narrative of district nine is a good example to illustrate the difference between a plot and a story, because it contains both aspects, the movie starts with a prologue, it is set as both a story tale/ documentary and a film. The movie jumps in sections into storytelling where characters describe the series of events that occurred.

In 1982, a starship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa that is bearing an alien population, which are nicknamed prawns to describe scavengers or bottom feeders. It is discovered that the aliens are the last survivors of their home world, they...

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... out illegal and inhumane experiments. This is all similar to the setup of apartheid, the segregation of races, the inhumane acts that were carried out by soldiers. The leaders giving orders and in charge are mainly white. The living conditions of the black people was less than human. The aliens are also represented in a negative light, they have illegal arms and fight in the streets. The Nigerians are also seen as no better that white counterparts, they derogate the aliens, take advantage of them for their own gain. All characters are represented in a negative way. Therefore it show that no majority can be in power. Blomkamp shows the viewer that our own opinions and beliefs help us shape our opinions on issues such as racism, this is important as it help us see the world, not as it is but through our eyes as our heritage, culture, belief shape us how we view it.