Little Old Lady From Cricket Creek Comparison

Short stories and films both have very similar structural elements with the tension in them increasing and the ways they use to make both visual and literature entertaining, however they both can be very diverse. “Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek” written by Len Gray and the 2 minute short film “Be careful with that Crossbow” have some similarities. It just seems that the plot flow and the words and visual aspects used for the characters in these two entertainment sources are not very cohesive. Take the Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek. The plot is an old lady who is applying for a job at an insurance company. Compared to a boy who is shooting arrows at a little girl’s face they are not really relatable. The element of tension rise and personality however are probably the only aspects these two have. The tension rise in the short story seems to be mounting equivalently with the short film.

The tension build could not exist without an orientation to find what caused it.

The Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek’s orientation starts off as a traditional orientation with the characters being introduced and the setting they are in (which is Great Riveroak Insurance Company) which is the who and where part of the story. Then the “what” part of the orientation which is the old lady is applying for a job at this company. On the other hand, Crossbow doesn’t really show the “who, what and when” scenario. With the film just starting on a shot of the little boy shooting arrows. With no dialogue at all, it doesn’t tell who they are this forces the audience to really pay attention to the characters. As the short story seems to be more coherent, the film seems to be out of line which makes these two incommensurable. However the only thing that they do have in comparable is their rising

tension.
Little Old Lady and Crossbow are both really entertaining narratives. This is due to of how high the rising tension or complication is mounting. Crossbow’s tension exist because of how the position of the arrows are to the little girl’s head and the use of angles and sound they use for it to make it really eye catching. Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek does the same build but with really descriptive word use and the actions that are occurring. For example the highest point in rising tension is when the old lady robs the company’s money, the phrase “she took a pistol out of her handbag” was one of the sentences that was from the section of the story. It is really needy for the reader’s attention. Unfortunately whatever goes up must come down and that is what is happening with the tension trend in these two narrative. This must mean that the resolution is near by
The Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek ends with a really surprising and unexpected way with Mabel Jumpstone being the protagonist’s Mom!!!! This relationship revealment was much unanticipated which really made this story really successful when it comes to entertainment. I think the tension in the resolution probably dropped gradually. Whereas Crossbows resolution just drops completely because of how dull and sudden it is with the last arrow shot through the forest and into a gardener’s bottom then the boy tries to run away but then he get knocked out by a rake. This wasn’t much unanticipated as the short story. In comparison these two are very different with one story being unexpected and the other not really. But this plot structure cannot occur without characters playing them.
The characters in Crossbow are very general with just boy and girl. However we can identify them with the actions they do to unlock their personality traits. Take the boy, we can tell he is very mischievous because of when he tries to run away from the gardener. People should see that very clearly. Whereas in the short story Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek, the characters seem to be more broad and specific than Crossbow with them actually having names and descriptive words used for their actions and appearance. Take Mabel Jumpstone, with descriptive words we can tell she is old without saying she is old like the phrase from the story “Mrs Jumpstone came shuffling and others like “like an old grey mare”. These two narrative are nothing alike when it comes to characters with one being narrow and the other being more broad when it comes to description. However the personality in the two protagonists of the narratives seem to have the same personality with both being mischief.e
In conclusion, these two narratives seem to be very entertaining in their own unique way with one being suspenseful and the other just being straight up weird. They both have very authentic characters and really high rise tension which audiences seem to like. Although short film and short stories are quite different, they both are also the same because they are both entertaining narratives.