Introduction – 45 to 60 seconds
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Towanda is writing a short story for entry into the national short story contest. She is hoping to win $10,000 to put toward her college education.
Her story is about a girl who is shy and quiet at school but outgoing and friendly when home with friends and family.
The girl, named Cynthia, is very artistic. She dresses differently than her peers. She loves to dye her hair in bright rainbow colors.
She wears dark rimmed glasses and dresses in bright unmatching colors. Cynthia loves to express her individuality.
Because of this, she is often ridiculed by others. Sometimes her peers pass judgement on her before they even meet her.
The theme of Towanda’s story is that it’s hazardous to pass judgment on
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All of the scenes in the story will be dedicated to furthering the theme.
Towanda has carefully considered all of the plot details and will be editing her work extensively before submitting it into the contest.
Build on Introduction – 25 to 35 seconds
Towanda has a couple of thoughts on what she wants to write for her story’s climax. They are all good options.
One option she is considering using is having the main character save someone’s life.
The person’s life that she saves is the one who has always passed judgement on her. The events in the rising action will illustrate how cruelly the main character was treated.
The theme of the hazards of passing judgment is illustrated in the rising action as it builds toward the climax.
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Towanda wrote a gripping climax about a typical swim team practice session which quickly became dangerous.
The main character reaches out to save a fellow team mate from potentially drowning. Turns out that team mate was her main bully.
She often judged the main character harshly due to her artsy appearance and colorful
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She wanted the conclusion to leave the readers reflective on the consequences of judging others.
There were a few ways she wanted to conclude the story. In the end she went with her gut instinct and wrote from the heart.
Her conclusion reinforced how the main character felt while being judged so harshly and how she reached out and saved her bully’s life.
Her conclusion reinforced the theme that judging others has hazardous effects. Towanda hopes her story will discourage others from judging people harshly.
Remediation for Clip A – 25 to 35 seconds
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Justine is planning out a short story that she would like to write. She has an idea of what she wants to write but it isn’t fully developed yet.
Her idea is about a futuristic town set in the year 3400. Her story marks this year as the beginning of time travel.
In the story she desires that one of the main characters return to the year 1990 in order to meet a distant ancestor.
Before she begins drafting her story she wants to unify her writing by declaring a theme in which she can plan the plot around.
After giving it some thought, she decided the theme should be that curiosity may cause disastrous consequences.
Remediation for Clip B – 25 to 35
Characterization: At the beginning when she first meets Pat, her character is very dark and broken. She seemed deeply flawed. It also seems as if she is mentally defeated.
In today’s society, people are very quick to judge others based on what they look like or how they dress. Recently we have been studying “Martin”, a narrative essay, written by Nick Vaca. This narrative has many beneficial lessons within the story, but one message stands out more than the others. Vaca learns to make assumptions about people, as a result of his childhood experience with Martin.
conclusion will include the end of the story that i stated at the beginning and sum up what I overall thought of the story and the parts I analyzed.
Last but not least, O’Connor confirms that even a short story is a multi-layer compound that on the surface may deter even the most enthusiastic reader, but when handled with more care, it conveys universal truths by means of straightforward or violent situations. She herself wished her message to appeal to the readers who, if careful enough, “(…)will come to see it as something more than an account of a family murdered on the way to Florida.”
She always wanted to be the center of attention, she was prejudiced and believed things should stay the same, and she was very selfish. While she thinks she’s above everyone else, she feels that the world revolves around her.
A theme is the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition. When reading the short story “The Possibility of Evil” we meet a lovely old lady named Adela Strangeworth. Upon reading further into the story it is revealed that the friendly and caring Miss Strangeworth has kept a dark secret from the town her whole life.
up an overall idea of the theme of the scene. The scene is quite long,
Being a tomboy makes her different, and she does not care what anyone thinks. She has no fear of fighting the boys and she has social problems at some points in the story. She does not know when to keep her mouth shut and when to stop asking questions, but that makes her character significant. She is also very smart at her age. She learned to read before she started school, and when her teacher found out, she told her to forget everything she learned.
In The Book Thief, Death bluntly tells the reader, “You are going to die.” The macabe statement grabs the attention of the reader and points to a larger theme: fate rules peoples lives. The theme of fate is present in many popular works of literature. Through the use of literary devices, the authors of The Book Thief, Monkey’s Paw, and The Interlopers convey their common theme that fate is fixed and that humanity can not change the course of their lives.
Any action predicated on one character’s withholding of information could have been remedied by sharing the information. This undeniable truth proves that the curiosity of humanity can lead to destruction and anguish. The playwright’s motive is for the audience to understand this lesson and rid themselves of secrecy and unhelpful curiosity. The playwright’s parables are aimed to not only enlighten, but to change perspective of the audience, ultimately leading to the improvement of humanity.
In the short story, "An Hour With Abuelo", the tale tells us of boy reluctantly visiting his grandfather, Abuelo. The story's theme is that things that you expect may not turn out the way you think. She conveys the theme at the end of the story when the main character learns the theme of the story.
Themes are central to the plot of any story. In fact, themes are the purpose to an author writing anything. By definition, a theme is the subject or topic of a work. Some themes, like that in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are more obvious, while others, such as, “Hills Like White Elephants” are less clear and require readers to do some deep reading and critical thinking in order to identify the purpose of it, and through strong reading techniques, audiences will find valuable lessons embedded within the themes can enlighten and even revive our thinking.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Silko counsels that the story's potential for good or ill should not be easily discounted or dismissed. She seems to understand all too well that human beings house both virtuous and vicious impulses; our stories are infused with both the sinister and the sublime. There is a unifying, mythical or archetypal realm which exists just beyond the scope of individual consciousness. Stories are tethered to and wound around this insubstantial place, and the power of each story is firmly rooted in this connection.
In everyday life, we must overcome the challenges that test our strength and will as well as to accept the ramifications that come in handling the situation. These events are known as moral and ethical dilemmas and in certain reading selections, the main characters are faced with fulfilling a parent’s desire, putting your life at risk, challenged to explore who you really are, and choosing to whether or not disclosing or doing something is the right thing to do.