Over The Garden Wall

Although released over 17 years ago, Rob Sitch’s comedy The Castle remains an incredibly popular film that portrays an ‘Aussie Battler’ family, the Kerrigans, in suburbia. Film writer Ian Craven states that the Kerrigans possess “the qualities of a simple good-heartedness family, with human decency and dignity”, all of which can be easily recognized by the audience throughout the film. The Castle takes a satirical look at Australian suburbia in order to manipulate traditional stereotypes, gender constructions, themes, identities, ideologies and cinematic techniques as a means of altering the positioning of the audience.

Throughout Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the imagery of walls illustrates the boundaries that exist between people and communities on both an institutional and interpersonal level. In Butler’s near-future apocalyptic environment, the obstacles that the protagonist must face are merely an exaggeration of the United States’ current institutions and policies and the subsequent psychological effects. The protagonist, Lauren Olamina, encounters myriad boundaries in her physical and spiritual journey for liberation and prosperity. She is, first and foremost, restricted by the local boundaries imposed by the apocalyptic equivalent of gated communities. She is imprisoned by the walls of her own community and later ostracized by the walls

As a child daydreaming and imagining was essential to survive the extensive abominable days of summer, or the weekends. Likewise, in the texts “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy and “The Firefly Hunt” by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki two children who still express their imagination and creativity, have to realize the harsh realities that everyone must incorporate. In the texts “Red Cranes” and “The Firefly Hunt” they express the ambition and creativity of a child’s mind. However, the development of the two characters dealing with the realities in their adolescent years, varies tremendously between the two stories.

Included in the film are the vast and open outback landscapes which signifies the freedom of aboriginals land and how they belong to it as the are physically and emotionally affected when they are taken away from it. The rabbit fence was built to keep the Aboriginals in one place, therefore symbolising the division between the Aboriginals and the Europeans. Also a

Rabbit Proof Fence has been published both as a book and as a movie. Being a reader or a viewer entirely changes our point of view on the story. As a reader, we get descriptive insight on the situations and emotions of the characters. We are then able to re-create these visually using our imagination and have endless freedom doing so. As a viewer, our creativity is somewhat restricted. We do not imagine the characters’ physical appearance, the locations or the overall situations in the same way as in a book. These elements are already given to us. Throughout this essay I will be exploring how the music and the filming creates a contrast between reading the book with elaborate descriptions.

The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a young girl’s loss of childhood innocence. The story is narrated by a mature woman remembering her initiation into adolescence through the images and events that occurred in an unused neighborhood lot. She is not ready to mature into adolescence and uses her imagination to transform the lot into a fantasy garden--a place where she can hide from the adult world.

On the surface, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home seems simply to be a memoir of her journey towards discovering her own identity, and in the process, uncovering her father’s. However, the novel is far more complex. The graphic novel is not linear in the least, and mimics memory as it moves backwards and forwards in time, or returns to specific situations repeatedly. This is layered with the numerous references to previous literary texts in an interesting manner; combined, it provides emotional and informative layers to the novel. Bechdel starts to especially question binaries and pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a female and male in a relatively patriarchal society with no middle ground around the rules; as the novel shows, this affects not only Bechdel’s own pursuit towards her identity but has a significant, and ultimately fatal, impact on her father, Bruce.

This quote from Brook sums up the production of Boy Girl Wall by the Escapists as actor, Lucas Stibbard took an empty space such as the black boxed room and called it a bare stage. It used a conventional, ordinary room with pipes, a fuse box and doors, all been painted black to create a distinct world that we as an audience became submerged in. As the production progresses Stibbard is constantly setting the stage as he goes, such as drawing a pillow or an alarm on the wall with his one piece of chalk. This suggests that anyone could perform this piece or a piece similar to it as it uses everyday items to portray a narrative in a normal and simplistic setting. This gives insights of the battles young amateur actors and play writers face with

The idioms of everyday American speech in a middle-class domestic situation are used in showing the events and relationships of the Berlin family. In contrast to the conversations of Becca and Stan, usually presented as straight dialogue, the discussions among the three sisters are conventionally presented, often with “she said” and other interpolations to give explicitly the emotional level of the sister’s disagreements. Madga, the Polish student who acts as Becca’s guide to the death camp site speaks fluent English but at times awkward English “Oh, they are much in appreciation” she says when given a pair of jeans. Contrast between the formal, traditional language of the fairy tale and childish, informal chatter is shown when the children comment or question as Gemma proceeds with her Briar Rose fairy tale story telling. Her contrast revisiting of just this one fairy tale shows the reader that while her conscious memory has buries the details of her past horrors, she cannot help returning to the fairy tale allegory. Contrast is also shown between the warm, happy imagery of life in the Berlin house and the bleak, harsh details of the holocaust.

Before taking this course, I always looked at films and read books just as the average person does; interesting plot and how long will it hold my interest, but this course gave me an entire different perspective when watching films and reading books. Now that I have taken this course and have watched the required films, the most important thing when watching other movies and reading books, is the meaning behind each scene and how they relate and affect our world. For this paper, I will discuss a book that I read a long time ago, which is She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb and how this book relates to this course.

Similar to “Acquainted with the Night,” isolation is a major theme in “Mending Wall.” In “Mending Wall,” there are two characters: the speaker and the neighbor. The two characters have two different opinions on what make a “good neighbor.” The neighbor views walls as a crucial object in

Virginia Heffernan wrote a television review named, “Calling Blue: And On That Farm He had Cellphone.” Heffernan claims that there is an issue over how children television series only create shows that are not educational for children and are to simplicity. The author uses the show, Blue’s room, as an example of how bad children’s shows have become. By using the Blue’s Room, the author supports the claim by writing over how the new show’s first episode was basically demonstrating children how farmers wear overalls while they are doing tasks such as milking a cow and gathering eggs. Heffernan thinks that this is pointless as many children may not even want to become a farmer, let alone they might not even want to milk a cow in their

While watching I took notes and paid close attention to all the dialogue and actions carried out by the characters concerning politics and stances. This was not the easy in Grace and Frankie, for, “...the characters occasionally blister, erupting in anger or sadness, and that emotional honesty gives the show the weight…” and in these moments much can be learned about the characters useful for my project (VanDerWerff). The depth of the characters is what drew me to this show but also proved to be one difficulty in creating my project. Another problem I faced was having so much to watch, but a small amount of time to watch, since I had not seen the show

A butterfly chandelier will look great if you're redoing your child's bedroom. Often, a toddler room has to be updated as the child grows older. A butterfly chandelier can grow with your child into her teenage years easily. Young girls are never too old for butterflies in the bedroom.

“Halfway Off the Balcony” is a song from Big Sean’s upcoming album I’ve Decided. The song has one intro, three hooks, two verse, and one interlude. I found this song an overview of how Big Sean has changed further into his career. For instance, in the hook Big Sean states;