Movement In Into The Woods

I read the book Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen. Woods Runner is about a 13 year old boy named Samuel whose parents get kidnapped in the Revolutionary War. His parents have been taken to New York City and Samuel has to go there to find them. He goes on the path to New York and meets unexpected allies.

The male dancer only wore pants and bared his upper body. This simple costume design not only made the people who watch the dance to have a clear vision of the dancer, but also better presented a predicament that the character was experiencing at that time. At the first half of the dance, the dancer would leave at least one part of his body on the bench, and tried hard to reach other parts of his body away. This muscular interplay between the dancer and the bench resonated with the audience to experiencing the same struggle feelings as the character. As the performance developed, the dancer started to leave the bench to fully use the space. The dancer had many different movements comparing with sitting on the bench previously. He started to lie down, roll over, stand on the bench and make a turn use only one foot. The level of the dance was no longer limited in the middle but changing from low to high as well. Having such a change, the dancer is converting a more delight and energetic feeling to the audience, in order to demonstrated that the character was recovered through the

Before reading the third chapter of “The Forest and the Trees”, I remember learning in the second chapter about symbolism, ideology and the construction of life in different cultures and societies around the world. For example, something interesting I remember learning was how every social system has a culture, consisting primarily of symbols (including words), ideas and practices. I believe this also connects and refers to how we tend to build our own sense of reality through the words and ideas that we use to mean something and people may use to name interpret what they experience and how cultures consist of symbols of ideas or words being portrayed. Based on what I read in the second chapter and the title of the third chapter, “The Structures

In the short story “Where are you going,Where have you been”,the author uses three types of imagery techniques throughout the short story. The author makes the story much more appealing by integrating kinesthetic,visual,and auditory. The author creates movement in the short story by adding words for movement. Joyce Carol Oates writes, “They must have been familiar sights, walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk, with charm bracelets jingling on their thin wrists; they would lean together to whisper and laugh secretly if someone passed who amused or interested them”(pg1). In this quote from the short story,the author uses action verbs like scuffed,walking and lean to describe what the two character are doing in the story.

The Light In The Forest, a novel by Conrad Richter, depicts the struggles of a young boy named True Son, or John Cameron Butler, who has been raised by Indians but must go back to his home with the “whites.” The story takes place in Western Ohio and Pennsylvania in the year of 1764 where the relationship between the Pennsylvanians and Indians is not great. Throughout the story, True Son learns the differences between the Indians and Whites, and how each group views the other. Knowing the views between the two groups, True Son things about trying to figure out which group he really identifies as and belongs to, which is one of the conflicts in the story. Through all the troubles that True Son encounter, the theme of the story is the true identity

“The Thing in The Forest” by A. S. Byatt is a short story that takes place in London, it is about two girls who were send away by their parents with no clue why they were send, is it a punishment or vacation. The two girls become friends as soon as they met each other and they were always together and did not want anyone to be friends with them because when Alys wanted to be friend with them they did not let her become their friend. One day when they went to the forest they did not let Alys some with them and that’s when she disappeared in the forest and nobody knows why and how she disappeared. When you read the whole story “The Thing in The Forest”, you will start questioning yourself these questions the following questions: do the thing is really exist or the two girls are imagining it? Did the boys that the girls named them ‘the gang’ did something bad to Alys and the two girls witnessed it or was it a soldier? Was Alys doing something bad or witnessed something that caused her death?

The Appalachian Trail spans over 2,000 miles on the east coast of the United States. It is a dangerous hike that takes people, around 6 months to complete. The hike has snowy parts and hot sunny parts. The book “A Walk in the Woods,” was wrote by Bill Bryson. He tries to take on the storm with a friend named Katz.

The dancers represent how they are all moving together to a rhythm that binds them together, not as dancers, but as human beings. It represents how everything is bound together, but this connection is lost by many of the characters. They distance themselves from their connections to relatives and to the Earth through the actions of the government and their own decisions.

Into the Woods brings together all of the fairytales one learns to love as a child, but it brings interesting twists to their stories. Not only do these beloved character’s storylines intermingle, they work together, and sometimes against one another, for the ultimate goal: a “Happily Ever After”. The main plot of the barren baker and his wife’s hunt to break the curse the evil witch placed on their family leads them on an adventure, that gets them into many sticky situations, propels the long complex storyline along. You’re introduced to a spunky, almost bratty, little red riding hood; a Cinderella who runs from her prince; and two princes that are full of hot air. This musical leads the audience through many twists and turns with compelling

Book by James Lapine was a great story overall. I truly enjoyed watching the show especially when the Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim played perfectly during the show. Director Eve Himmelheber was able to put out a such an amazing show. I really enjoyed watching Into The Woods because it was colorful, every character was really great with their role, and so much more. I could not be more amazed of how beautiful the production came out. Musical Director Mitchell Hanlon was really great with every musical that played throughout the show. He was always in time of making the sound when a character would kick the floor or any action that was necessary during the play. Scenic Designer Mauri Anne Smith and Ashley Strain created such an amazing setting for the production. The scene looked very realistic, which is really great because it gave me a different feel of the show. Costume Designer Michelle Kincaid created such beautiful costumes for every single character. Whether the costumes were bought, hand made, or both it still came out pretty good. The costume definitely matched the theme of having several characters from different show. Lighting Designer Ben Hawkins made the interior and

Into the Woods is a Broadway Musical that was first introduced to the public 1987. The storyline was written by James Lapine and the songs were produced by Stephen Sondheim. Lapine had many different intentions in writing this musical, most importantly, he was trying to portray how dangerous the world can truly be, “Though it's fearful, though it's deep, though it's dark and though you may lose the path, though you may encounter wolves, you can't just act, you have to listen. You can't just act, you have to think.” Throughout the play, there is the question of whether the cost of revenge will outweigh the benefit of the good, which was extremely relevant when Jack wanted to kill the Prince’s assistant because he killed his mother, “Then he

Into the Woods follows a baker and his wife who have a desire to have children and start a family. They soon learn that their inability to have children is a curse brought upon by a witch. Meanwhile, characters from different fairytales have other personal goals they want to achieve as well. Through certain circumstances, each respective character gets their wishes granted and lived happily ever after, only for consequences to occur afterwards. The story is set in a setting similar to the Middle-Ages, with kingdoms, farmers and a world filled with magic. The story is another fairytale that brings a number of fairytales together and brings in different worlds to merge into one to tell one unique story.

The musical Into the Woods alludes to concepts of choices and the related aftermath of consequences. For many characters throughout, the woods and the beanstalk particularly became a means for them to deflect their decisions and to instead place the blame of their actions on the environment. This use of the environment could be seen from the following moments in the play: Jack’s escapades with the giants, the Baker’s wife’s affair with the prince, the princes’ search for new women, the community’s decision to throw the narrator to his death and then the killing of the giantess. In these moments, each character used the environment as justification and refused to accept responsibility for what they actually had control over all along. As soon as Jack’s magical beans grew into a stalk, Jack took advantage of the opportunity and climbed up into the sky, only to find some giants who treated him as their own, giving him food, rest and love (“Giants in the Sky”); however, instead of appreciating their care, Jack used the beanstalk as a means to steal from them,

Can you survive in the forest? If it possible, how long can you survive in there? It will be very difficult without weapons for survive. In this book a boy who survived 54days in a forest. The boy who survived 54days in a forest is Brain Robeson. He is 13 years old and he boarded the plane headed for woods as northen Canada. But during the flight time the pilot dead. because of shock. Brain was really surprise because no one can drive the plane. But before the flight, pilot teach him how to drive it. But it was really short lesson. Suddenly, the plane crashed into a lake in the Canadian woods. That mean he had to survive in the forest. There was no food and he has injure from the crash. During survive time he met dangerous animals such as

Umberto Eco in his book “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods” discusses several literature theories, which he originally told to students at the Harvard University. I, mostly, enjoyed reading it, because his vision of literature, his thoughts about books, authors, readers are different from mine, and that is one of the reasons why it is interesting. Of course, I did not understand everything, because Eco uses lots of unknown to me terminology and because of lack of experience from my side in literature and life. To begin with, I wanted to speak a little bit about two definitions from his first lecture “Entering the Woods.” Eco, there introduces a model reader. But what exactly does it mean? According to Eco, “model reader - a sort of ideal type whom the text