HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories “What makes the story moving is the idea of the father’s redemption by his own child.” (Michael Billington) Discuss! Haroun’s father is called Rashid Khalifa. His family break apart because bot his son and his wife accuse him of telling meaningless and useless stories and not being rational at all. His wife leaves him‚ but his son suddenly relizes that Rashid his ability of telling stories dried up‚ so he thinks it’s all his fault and wants to do something because
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Randa ElFouly The Danger of a Single Story - A speech that was said by Chimamanda Adichie that inspired me to write this report. Chimamanda Adichie began talking about this thing she liked to call “a single story.” The Danger of a Single Story is about having a one sided perspective on different cultures and countries. She explains that she originally had a single story of writing because as a kid‚ all she had read were children’s books from America or England and all the characters in these
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Kristina Medina English ½ 10/26/12 So you think you have game "It must be Jelly‚ ’cause jam don’t shake”‚ A Story in Harlem Slang‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game‚ the woman that walks by‚ schools them both‚ yet she is not the one with the most game. Jelly and Sweet Back do have some game they both assume that they are better than one another
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hort story Best Short Story for May/June 2010 English A Exam Written by: Zoie Hamilton of Washington Archilbald High School‚ St. Kitts and Nevis By Curtis Johnson in Form 4/5 Business 1 (Files) · Edit Doc Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate® May/June 2010 English A Examination Quesion5: It was the middle of the mathematics class. Mrs Taylor our teacher suddenly collapsed and sprawled unconscious on the floor. It was terrifying. Write a story which includes these words. She
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A/N: a short story done for my mock English GCSE exam‚ where the question was to ’describe a nightmare world’. Instead of going for the cliché‚ hell-like landscape‚ I decided to base my so-called ’nightmare world’ off of a real nightmare‚ in the world we live in – a young boys perspective during a bombing in WWII. Note: I got an A for that exam paper! Nightmare World Every day they come‚ in their great terrifying birds of steel‚ overhead and through the clouds that I once thought held heaven
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Darwin’s Nightmare can be described as an allegory presenting a world of super powers and their greed to steal‚ destroy and kill. It is not only the story of Eastern Congo alone‚ but an eye opener to the imperialistic interest of some “war lords” in the natural resources of some endowed nations that are considered lesser power. Examples of such are nations like Iraq‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Sudan‚ or Sierra- Leone. The endless conflicts are often described as tribal or religious‚ but the underlying
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TANZANIA`S NIGHTMARE A nightmare‚ this refers to a very bad dream that a person seems to experience. Tanzania is one of the most blessed countries when it comes to natural resources but it`s faced by extreme poverty and underdevelopment‚ for so many years this nightmare (poverty & underdevelopment) has been torturing the minds of many Tanzanians. THE BEGINING Tanzania is a fruit of the unification of two young countries which are Tanganyika and Zanzibar under the leadership of J.K.Nyerere and
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short story‚ “Accident‚” describes the scene of an accident between the narrator and a car full of three teenagers. Eggers chose to tell his story in the second person persepection so the reader can fully understand the emotions. The narrator seems lonely to purposely hit the teenager’s car. The narrator states‚ “You pulled in to an intersection‚ obstructing them‚ and their car hit yours. They have every right to be upset‚ or livid‚ or even violence-contemplating.” I like this short story because
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