Mise-en-scene in Citizen Kane and Persona Mise-en-scene is the principle by which a piece of film will derive its meaning wholly from what happens in the single shot and not from the relationship between two shots. For example the director might include shots with various composition, angle, depth, movement, and lighting. Citizen Kane has many good examples to show Mise-on-scene usage. The scene that I believe is the most significant and powerful mise-en-scene that I have this seen this semester
In her story “Currents” Hannah Vosckuil uses symbolism, and a reverse narrative structure to show the story of how unnamed sympathetic and antagonistic characters react differently to a traumatic event. Symbolism can be found in this story in the way that Gary does not mind sitting in the dark alone at the end of the day as well as how both of his girls are affected by the symbolism of hands. One holding a boy’s hand for the first time and the other becoming sick after seeing the dead boy’s hand
Yusef Komunyakaa, the poet of war, vividly describes his vacillating emotions about the Vietnam War and his relation to it as an African-American veteran in the poem, “Facing It.” Komunyakaa, the protagonist of his narrative, reflective poem, contemplates his past experiences as he promenades around the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, struggling to conceal his ardent emotions and remain hard and cold as “stone.” He writes one stanza in a dark mood, and by using metaphors and visual imagery, he paints
What makes life full of surprises and excitements is the fact that it is unpredictable. Nothing stays the same forever, and everything is destined to change. Whether the changes are positive or not depends on how much one is willing to unconditionally accept and adjust to them. The protagonists Alice and Barry, from “Mirror Image” written by Lena Coakley and “Saturday Climbing” by W.D. Valgardson respectively, are dealing with different forms of changes in their lives, but are both learning to
While reading these wonderfully written stories by James Joyce and Alice Munro I found myself relating to the characters a lot. They both wrote about two different characters, but the same meaning was behind both, growing up, changing from who they were to who they will be. Even though sometimes change is not always good, I think it is normal for changes to happen throughout people’s lives. Because being able to accept the change, watching the world change as you do, can make you become the person
Sports Gender Segregation Do you think women should play with men professionally in a sport? Although people may believe that women should be treated equally with men when it comes to certain things, but when it comes to sports it is totally different. Sometimes sports are not always played for fun. Sports take a real big part on the competitive side. Some may argue that girls can play a sport better than boys, people think that girls should play with the boys because
In the story Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce, a young boy goes through a journey that, while unique to him, leads to a loss of childlike innocence that happens to all of us. All too soon, however, the boy wanders to far from home and becomes lost. In his journey to get back to his familiar home he experiences a gradual loss of his childlike innocence, culminating in a total loss of childhood innocence when he realizes that the dead woman he has found is his mother. At the beginning of his journey
story “A Long Way Gone” it also talks about a group of boys that went through life changing events as well. These two group of boys have many similarities but they also have many differences between them. For example in both of the writings it talks about them going through starvation and the help they received from people along the way. They also had a difference between them which was where the group of boys had escaped to. Despite, one of the group
In this section, I will argue that La La Land meets and engages with enough of Rick Altman’s criteria for an American film musical to be considered a proper one. Altman outlines two different sets of criteria: the semantics and the syntax. The semantics covers the basics of essentially any musical: format, length, characters, acting, and sound. The syntax, however, is far more specific. It details the specifics the narrative and technical structures of the film must meet in order to be considered
The Battler has been yet another tale of the life of Nick Adams. An odd tale at that. We are introduced to Nick as he is tossed out of a train, falling on his hands and knees. His clothes are torn and his knees are scraped. He goes to the nearest body of water and begins to wash his hands carefully. Nick Adams is traveling alone, possibly from something in his past (47). He is washing his hands to rid of the dirt, but this may symbolize him washing his hands clean of what he had been through or what
The crowd erupts in cheers, and I take a deep breath. Many of my teammates are shaking, filled with nerves, but I feel at home. I wiggle my freshly sprained ankle. It hurts,but I smile through the pain anyway. This is it. It’s Now or never. The music blasts out and the routine takes over. Cheerleading has been a part of my life since I was seven years old, when I begged my mom to join the local cheer team. Starting out, I was pretty bad, as many would expect. I would trip over my own feet, hit
After frying some fresh venison to go with the leftovers from the night before and everyone ate their fill, Charity cleaned up her cooking area and then told the children that she was going to walk into town to see if she could trade some of the fresh meat, for some flour, lard, and beans. She took the back-strap, which was the tenderest part of the deer, and the two hind-leg-quarters, hoping they would be enough to get the supplies that she needed in order to keep her children fed. To help carry
Rejecting Savagery In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon and Piggy are among a group of boys who become stranded on a deserted island. Left without any adults, the boys attempt to create an orderly society. However, as the novel progresses, the boys struggle to sustain civility. Slowly, Jack and his hunters begin to lose sight of being rescued and start to act more savagely, especially as fears about a beast on the island spread. As the conflict progresses, Jack and Ralph battle for power
As Macduff trod fourth mournfully from Cawdor Castle, he looked to the sky. The vast clouds and darkening horizon only added to the bereft mood living both in and out of castle walls. Their King was gone; his callous murders, killed in Macbeth’s rage. Suddenly, Macduff did not know which was stronger, his sense of loss, or the distinct sense that something unusual was brewing. No sooner had the thought slipped into his mind, than he noticed a peculiar vitality building in the air around him. Drawn
Damien Chazelle. The film made more than $300 million dollars at the box office, becoming one of the most successful Lionsgate production movies (1). La La Land is not only greatly packed with emotions, but also filled with intense colors and great music. Even if the viewer is not into musicals, the songs in La La Land have a catchy tune and magical sound that would get stuck in his/her mind. The movie has been considered a masterpiece by the complex and high-quality techniques that it presents; from
Three Quotations – Jack Merridew 1. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief” (pg. 177) This quote is significant because it represents what Jack is and what he has done. Ralph calls Jack these names before they lose their temper and are about to fight. In this quote, Ralph has called Jack out, that he is the reason of all the misfortune that has happened on the island and that he is the beast. That he was the reason of all this savagery and that he caused the evil within the boys
What does it mean to be in love? In Octavia Butler's Kindred the protagonist, Dana, explores what it really means to be in love, or be loved. She travels back to the past where she meets Rufus, her ancestor, who has connections with both Dana and Alice, another one of Dana’s ancestors. Rufus has abusive relationships with Dana and Alice and merely wants to possess them. Ultimately, Butler is suggesting that people become the figures of their time, and cannot change. Rufus does not love Alice, he
Champion Megan Finerty, Blocks 1/2 By Marie Lu *Setting* In the novel Champion, June and Day (characters from the previous novels in the series) now take on the responsibility of piecing back together their home, The Republic. Because of the disputes between the Republic and the Colonies (mainly a fight over land), Champion’s setting is thrown into a state of war. There are three consistent characters
which Ralph and Jack’s friendship and relationship turns bad because it is one of the few pieces of technologies on the island, which leads the boys to fight over it as it is one of, if not the most powerful thing on the island. Soon after the boys group up at the beginning of the book, they decide that starting a fire is a crucial step in a plan to being rescued. All of the boys agree on this. After Ralph, the “chief”, tells Jack and his hunters they need to keep the fire going in the event of a ship
[Curtains open to a man laying on the ground.] [Enter Man] Man: Where am I? Narrator: The man had waken up, his senses now unflagging. Groping around, he jostled against something. A cadaver of the man he had been traveling with. He used to travel in a group of 6. Now he was the only one left. He had enough rations to last him another month, but had forgotten where he had come from and had lost his sense of direction. He went on moving for the day and never stopped. By nightfall he plummeted to the