"FIGURES"
After sneaking out of her parents' house, a young woman finds herself wandering an empty street until she is stalked by something not quite human.
ACT I
1. EXT - STREET - NIGHT
ESTABLISHING SHOT of a two-story house in an upper-middle-class suburban neighborhood. The house is dark and quiet until a faint light turns on in the upstairs bedroom.
2. INT-BEDROOM-NIGHT
The clock changes from 10:24 to 10:25. SARAH, timid and obedient, quietly rushes to get ready sneak out to go to a party. 3. EXT - STREET - NIGHT
A car pulls up on the street facing the back of the house with 3 girls dressed up for a party in it.
4. INT- BEDROOM- NIGHT
SARAH, putting the final touches on her makeup, gets a text from her friends saying,
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Furious, SARAH yells at her BOYFRIEND and former FRIEND. They try to calm her down, but she won't listen to them. SARAH storms out of the room and leaves the party.
ACT II
9. EXT-STREET-NIGHT
SARAH starts to walk home alone in the middle of the night on a dark and empty road. After whipping tears from her eyes, she checks her phone and sees that she's received multiple texts from her mom. Struggling to unlock her phone, she drops it in a puddle and breaks it. She bends down to pick it up and a smokey human-like being, FIGURE 1, appears behind her watching her from a distance.
SARAH stands up, feeling somebody staring at her, she turns around and sees no one there.
SARAH continues to walk home and hears someone walking behind her. She turns around again and sees no one. She ignores it and continues walking. Shortly after she feels someone staring at her. She looks back and notices something under the street light, FIGURE 1 staring at her.
SARAH stares at it, waiting for it to make a move.
FIGURE 1 doesn't move.
She begins to walk away and takes her phone out pretending to have a conversation with someone.
FIGURE 1 begins to follow her at a
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ACT III
10. INT-NIGHT-BEDROOM
Once in her room, SARAH sees FIGURE 1 next to her bedroom door.
FIGURE 1 motions to SARAH to be quiet.
SARAH tries to run out of her door, but FIGURE 1 grabs her. SARAH screams at the top of her lungs to get her parents attention. FIGURE 1 covers her mouth as she wrestles with it to escape. To her dismay she sees FIGURE 2 starting to climb through the window.
SARAH desperately screams for her parents to save.
As she fights FIGURE 1 she hears footsteps running up the stairs. She manages to escape and runs out of her room.
11. INT-NIGHT-HALLWAY
SARAH runs down the hallway when she is grabbed by a man who she thinks is her father. She looks up and sees she's in the arms of a MASKED MAN. She tries to break free, but he throws her against the wall and throws her down the stairs causing her to hit her head on the floor and starts bleeding.
POV: She struggles to stay awake and is drug into the living room by the masked man. He stabs her repeatedly. She sees her parents' bodies on the floor and they begin to turn into THE
In the first scene the watcher sees her playing dress up in the park reciting lines (Labyrinth). The watcher sees “books such as The Wizard of Oz” all through her room (Carroll 104). The conflict that starts the lesson for Sarah is she finds her step brother Toby with her stuffed animal and she throws a fit, sending him to Jareth the goblin king (Labyrinth). The magical journey Sarah goes through is really “through her own subconscious” (Carroll 104). While Connor from A Monster Calls faces denial in the form of his mother who is facing a terrible sickness will be okay
I also added a picture of a sad face and a picture of a word bubble that says shhhhhh. I added those pictures because later in her life after being burned she thought her dad was going to abuse her more so she went to a hospital where she could stay safe from her dad. While she was at the hospital she didn’t talk and she was very sad and depressed, that’s why I added the pictures of the sad face and the word bubble. I also included the word brave and blond hair because Sarah was always pretty brave and stood up for herself like when Dale was being really mean to her. I think she started to be brave and stand up for herself after her dad abused her because she didn’t want o be treated like that ever again. I also added a picture of blondes hair because in the book it says Sarah has blond hair. I also put a picture of a newspaper because Sarah and Eric wrote mean things about people in their newspaper, crispy pork rinds, to make themselves feel better, since they were both considered
Sarah, initially, reminds Rachel that Matthew is asleep in the next room and suggests that their voices be lowered. However, by the end of her conversation with Rachel, Sarah's voice reaches high volumes as well, as she declares her support for Matthew. Rachel begins the conversation in a low voice as she explains her dream of being chained to the witness chair, which acts as exposition and offers an allusion to the past trial scene. As Rachel explains her disgust with Matthew and the way he used her as a witness, her voice becomes steadily louder, drawing attention to the urgency of her argument. Sarah occasionally offers her opinion on her husband's handling of Rachel's testimony,
She begins to tear strips of the wallpaper and continues to do so all night until morning yards of the paper are stripped off. Her sister-in-law Jennie offers to help, but at this point the narrator is territorially protective of the wallpaper. She locks herself in the room and is determined to strip the wall bare. As she is tearing the wallpaper apart she sees strangled heads in the pattern shrieking as the wallpaper is being torn off. At this point, she is furious and even contemplates jumping out the window, yet even in her euphoric state, she realizes this gesture could be misinterpreted.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
threatening to her and her family. She runs into the house filled with fear but then finds herself not
The internet is our conduit for accessing a wide variety of information. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr discusses how the use of the internet affects our thought process in being unable to focus on books or longer pieces of writing. The author feels that “someone, or something, has been tinkering with [his] brain” over the past few years (Carr 731). While he was easily able to delve into books and longer articles, Carr noticed a change in his research techniques after starting to use the internet. He found that his “concentration often [started] to drift after two or three pages” and it was a struggle to go back to the text (Carr 732). His assertion is that the neural circuits in his brain have changed as a result of surfing endlessly on the internet doing research. He supports this statement by explaining how his fellow writers have had similar experiences in being unable to maintain their concentrations. In analyzing Carr’s argument, I disagree that the internet is slowly degrading our capacity for deep reading and thinking, thereby making us dumber. The Web and Google, indeed, are making us smarter by allowing us access to information through a rapid exchange of ideas and promoting the creativity and individualization of learning.
... end, she begins to tear off as much of the paper as possible, in hopes of uncovering a way out for the "woman caught within the walls." (This woman is yet another facet of the original main character, the trapped and weak version.)
she takes to her bed and falls into a catatonic state. He helps to bury her and
Throughout the novel, it becomes clear that no matter how heinous the wrongdoings of many family members are, everyone forgives and forgets what has been done for the sake of the family. Upon observing Sarah’s story, the reader
... sins, but she can’t take back what she did so she will forever have blood on her hands. This guilt and all of the lies she has told is giving her true trepidation and in the end she decided to end her terror by taking her life.
She finds herself standing in an old unfamiliar empty room. She glances at the ceiling, noticing every ceiling title and each random square light in-between them. Then her eyes slowly focus on the pale white walls. As she scans each wall, she begins to notice the room is not empty. She soon realizes that she is standing in the middle of a hallway and staring at random unfamiliar people. Then everything becomes dark and she wakes up and goes on her day like normal. As she is going through her day, she finds herself in an unfamiliar room. She begins to study the ceiling, then the walls, and finally it dawns on her that she has been through this before. The girl has experienced déjà vu.
Sarah Penn is a crazy mother that wants a proper house instead a nasty, smelly barn filled with ugly cows. Sarah only wants the house that she deserves, the house that she's wanted for forty years. After finding out that her son knew about the building of the barn for three months, Sarah freaks out and turns to cleaning the dishes. Sarah pushes her daughter out of the way to clean
Lastly, she finally goes completely mad and starts to peel off the wallpaper and wanting to jump out of the window but, it is barred. “Then I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the floor. It sticks horribly and the pattern enjoys it!” “I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong to even try.” (320). The last quote suggests that she’s thinking about committing suicide because she’s gone crazy with just being in that one room. Sometimes people would commit suicide by jumping from tall
She sprinted to the house and broke open the door and sprinted down the stairs in the pitch black. Once she got down the stairs, she also fell down the trap. When she got down there she saw the same man that her husband had