Progression Of Characters In The Film E. T

In the movie, E.T, the closet scene after Elliot’s siblings discover E.T, conveys a narrative progression from within the span of the beginning to the end of the scene. As a result, it is with the aspects such as character goals, changing knowledge, and emotion evoking performances, that the risk of having his siblings tell their mother about E.T, in particularly Gertie, transitions into Elliot’s siblings promising to keep it a secret instead.
For starters, this is displayed through the shift of character goals that Gertie has throughout the course of the scene. However, it much be stated that the goal that Elliot has directly intersects with his sisters. Thus, like tectonic plates, someone is going to have to shift one way or the other, so the narrative can progress in one of two ways, Elliot’s or Gertie’s. Nonetheless, it appears that in the beginning of the scene, it is clear that Gertie is afraid of E.T and thus it can be implied that she is trying to scream to alert her mother about what is going on. In actuality, seconds before this scene, Gertie does in fact scream for a quick burst of a second, yet is stopped because Michael covers her mouth. Therefore, it is apparent that like any other young child who is frighten, that she is going to scream with the full intention that her mother will hear and come to her aid. On the contrary, Elliot’s goal is
Now, in order to do that he needs to as a short-term goal, keep Gertie quiet, and as a long-term goal, make sure Gertie understands that E.T is not a threat, but