The Rocking-Horse Winner
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Many essential steps must be implemented when taking a written story and turning it into a real life motion picture. D.H Lawrence, author of the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" depicts a common demon we all face; greed, society's need for more possessions and money often drives people to do drastic things. This is true in relation to a young boy named Paul who is growing up large unfriendly lavish house, with a mother and father who are obsessed with money and materialistic things. This results in them not caring much about anything else, not even their son. In the...
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The fairy tale opening, plot and the characterization are all improved upon greatly. The fairy tale opening was not used to its full extent so that the story would seem more realistic, the plot was also enhanced in some areas and lessened in some other areas to add to a stronger story line as the characterization of many characters was enhanced to suit the plot of the story. Some do not take the essential steps that ensure a good job, in this case all the essential steps were taken and a superior job was done.
In his poem The Divine Comedy. The Inferno, Dante Alighieri gives his audience a clear vivid presentation of what he as a follower of the Christian religion perceives to be hell. Dante shows that human sin is punishable in various degrees of severity and that this is dependent on the...
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When James Kelman"s novel How Late it Was, How Late won the Booker prize in 1994, it caused a storm of critical and popular debate. This debate still continues to revolve around books such as Irving Welsh"s Trainspotting, which are seen as continuing the style of foul-mouthed Scottish prose. At...
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I read the book Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard. It is a realistic fiction about a boy named Danny who lives with his dad way out in the woods. He gets a champion Irish Setter named Big Red and calls him Red. They go hunting a lot and Danny really...
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In folktales, legends, mythology, and even the Bible, people are told stories of men with unimaginable strength. They perform heroic feats and give service to the people they love. In the Old English epic of Beowulf, by an unknown author, people are enlightened of another such hero. Beowulf, the main...
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Mrs. Singletary It is a frequent view that times for the Irish majority in the 1930's and 40's were very hard. Especially for the Irish Catholic families with the stereotypical drunken father, emotionally ruined mother, kids running around her with her a sore back from the next child to be...
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