How does a fashion editor and an immigrant girl connect to each other? That is what I will discuss throughout this paper as I break down these two different story. Even though these two stories may have similarities, I will also analysis what makes them stand on their own. What makes them different? I also will state the advantages and disadvantages of using a film versus a print when it comes to narrative storytelling. When comparing and contrasting the two stories, Anna Wintour and Cynthia’s story share common structures and character development, however, Anna Wintour’s documentary is more credible.
Similarly, Cynthia and Anna Wintour’s character development took similar stages. From the beginning of both stories, two perspectives are shown
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We see both Cynthia and Anna’s passion for what they want. In Cynthia’s case, she is eager to learn the American way and to be educated. She does not want to relieve her tragedies. Anna’s passion is fashion and to finish the September Issue. My favorite line that she said was when she had to stop herself from working when she became too angry, because we tend to lose our selves in our work. We also see them with staining from saying too much about themselves. We learn about them from different sources. We learn a lot about Cynthia’s experience from Sue Colussy, Grace, or the Mizell family. In the documentary, we learn about Anna through her employees and friends, such as Grace, Tom, and Andre. In addition, there was also some form of humor throughout their stories, but it was shown in two different ways. In Cynthia’s narrative, the humor was shown through the confusion of Cynthia understanding Robert. The situation was funny. On the other hand, the humor in the documentary was shown through Anna when she occasionally laughed and made jokes with her peers and other designers. Again, their silence is one …show more content…
First, Anna’s documentary may not require the audience to be actively involved as much as print. It is less demanding, and require less energy. Documentary also give the viewers visual effects which means that we, as viewer, do not have to assume or guess the emotions or actions that are taken place. To add to the advantages, films, especially if they are documentaries, happen at a slower pace. It can take years to create a film and therefore, more information can be gathered. However some disadvantages is manipulation. Content can be edited, erased, or contrived. It could be a gate keep and only show what it wants the audience to see. When using print, we, as readers, have to be active. We are forced to analysis the story and look in-between the lines. We want to understand the story and identify the resolution, and with that, we have to be interested in the topic. I also think that not having video or film with print is an advantage because it is fun trying to imagine the images. We can create our own perspective of the situation instead of relying on someone else’s perception. Sadly, this can also be a disadvantage because, as viewers, we create our own perception, but it could be the wrong perception. Another disadvantage of print is the pace. New is faster is most of the time have a deadline. I am pretty sure Paige, who wrote Cynthia’ story, had a limited amount of
The documentary, “Miss Representation,” is a film about how women are perceived in the media. It is written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. She is an actress and a film maker who advocates for women. In the beginning of the documentary, Newsom discusses her struggles as a young woman surrounded by the pressures of looking a certain way. This film is targeting mainly women of all age that has experienced her struggles. Jennifer Siebel Newsom effectively convinces the audience of “Miss Representation” that the media has molded women in a negative way through statistics, celebrities’ and younger generation’s testimonies, and clips from the media.
Anzia Yezierska has written two short story collections and four novels about the struggles of Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side. Yezierska stories explore the subject of characters’ struggling with the disillusioning America of poverty and exploitation while they search for the ‘real’ America of their ideals. She presents the struggles of women against family, religious injunctions, and social-economic obstacles in order to create for herself an independent style. Her stories all incorporate autobiographical components. She was not a master of style, plot development or characterization, but the intensity of feeling and aspiration are evident in her narratives that overrides her imperfections.
Film Society of Lincoln Center , ND/NF Q&A: "Stories We Tell", Sarah Polley, online video, May 10 2013, viewed May 5 2014,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents her content in a journalistic style. The point of view is in first
I keep my journal hidden; the script, the drawings, the color, the weight of the paper, contents I hope never to be experienced by another. My journal is intensely personal, temporal and exposed. When opening the leather bound formality of Alice Williamson's journal a framework of meaning is presupposed by the reader's own feelings concerning the medium. Reading someone else's diary can be, and is for myself, an voyeuristic invasion of space. The act of reading makes the private and personal into public. Yet, for Alice Williamson and many other female journalists of the Civil War period, the journal was creating a public memory of the hardship that would be sustained when read by others. The knowledge of the outside reader reading of your life was as important as the exercise of recording for one's self; creating a sense of sentimentality connecting people through emotions. (Arnold)
In the books Where the Girls are and Coming of Age in Mississippi, the authors portray how they questioned their place within the American society, and how they found their voice to seek opportunities for themselves and others. The childhoods of Douglas and Moody are major factors in these women’s lives and character development. It is through these experiences that they formed their views of the world and learned to understand the world’s view of women. Douglas and Moody had very different experiences for they grew up in different decades, social and economic classes, and races. It is these differences that cause them to have different reactions. Susan Douglass in Where the Girls are and Anne Moody in Coming of Age in Mississippi have different critiques of American society and solutions, because of the differences of what they were exposed to.
The Statue of Liberty is an American icon because it symbolizes freedom, success, and the power of this nation. This image is what the U.S stands for to the outside world. Foreigners strive to move to America because of its wealth and acceptance towards all races and ethnicity. “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” recounts the story of how Carlos Garcia, Laura Garcia, and their four girls move from the Dominican Republic to the United States to escape a dictatorship, and establish a new life in flourishing New York City. Many unexpected culture shocks await them in their new country. Although the girls find it difficult to adapt at first, they soon begin to assimilate and Americanize. On the other hand, “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong illustrates the life of an Asian American having to embrace two entirely different cultural identities. Both the Garcia family and Elizabeth Wong's family have to deal with two opposing cultures without losing too much of their heritage. The book and the essay are similar in that characters in each story lose much of their original tradition. However, they are different in that the families move to the states for distinctive reasons, and the cultural preference of “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” is more evident than that of “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”.
In the early 1940’s Marie was born into a small tight knit family living in a small rural Kentucky town. Marie is now in her seventies and has led a very interesting life traveling the country, raising four children, and shaping her chosen profession. Our interview sessions were conducted over a period of time, as Marie is very active and has little “free time” to spare.
L’Engle, L'Engle. “Focus On The Story, Not Readers…” Writer Apr 2010: p. 24-25. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.
There was no better defining example of the division of main stream views and that of a particular ethnicity as in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria. Ortiz Cofer provided me with a very clear and a very defining expression of how her Puerto Rican culture could easily be misinterpreted. When discussing the dressing habits of her Puerto Rican culture Ortiz Cofer stated “As young girls it was our mothers who influenced our dec...
The linguistic and cultural clashes that children encounter, and how they negotiate between their ethnic and American “mainstream” cultures, and how these clashes and problems influence their relationship with their parents and their ethnic identities as a whole and how they were dealt with differently as we look at two stories dealing with two girls who are both coming of age in different society from where they originally came from. Jairy’s Jargon a story written by Carmen-Gloria Ballista, is a story that encounters the life of a young girl coming of age in Puerto Rico, except she’s originally from New York. Milly Cepeda’s story, Mari y Lissy, is a story about twin sisters who differ in personality and are often at odds with each other, but are both learning to live in a city that is very different from where they came from.
They are energetic and ready to have fun; however their adventures force them to mature. They have different journeys and experiences, but they ultimately get the same outcome which is an increase in maturity. These experiences allow the two girls to discover their true identities.
Ethnicity and appearance has become a tremendous problem in the media due to the fact that they try to use it as a power to control creativity of abstaining the truth in media. According to journalist Nishijima, A, she refers to the Oscars and explains that it is very absurd how the media is slowly progression in lacking diversity. This was recognized when watching the Oscars and seeing that based off predominantly white nominees. Nishijima quotes “Boone Isaacs decl...
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Culture molds the character of writers and gives a variety of different perspective on certain life experiences. In Julia Alvarez’s short story Snow, Yolanda, an immigrant student, moved to New York. While attending a Catholic school in New York, bomb drills were performed. The teacher would explain why these drills were important. Yolanda later found out that her first experience of watching snow was not the best experience one could possibly have.