The television show “Pretty Little Liars”, produced by I. Marlene King, is a very well-constructed piece. The first episode of “Pretty Little Liars” titled ‘Pilot’ aired June 8th, 2010. The major tone of the show is very suspenseful, however romance and drama are involved to a great extent to break up all the negativity and semi non relatable situations. “Pretty Little Liars” is a story about four girls who lose one of their closest friends, who had disappeared and was later found murdered, and begin dealing with a common stalker who knows the girls deepest darkest secrets. The television show is a great prime example of life lessons, such as trust, friendships and relationships. The TV series is based off the books written by Sara Shepard. …show more content…
Shephard never fails to keep her readers/viewers on their toes. The viewer/reader is able to get emotionally attached by all the suspense and details. “Spoken or written words can evoke powerful emotional responses.” (Lehne, Engel, Rohrmeier, Menninghaus, Jacobs & Koelsch 2015). Shephard does an outstanding job at piecing the story together and revealing information to the viewers/readers over the seasons as needed. The slow reveals of information are a great way to keep people interested. Over the seasons, Shephard reveals information about each of the characters that helps the readers/viewers find out who each of the characters are really and not just what meets the eye. Giving out these small details about the characters helps to justify why they do what they do throughout the show. Most television shows or even movie sagas seem to drag on and end a lot sooner than they do, but Shephard’s story line works to be drawn out so much. Each of the little details that Shephard reveals about each of the character’s pasts allows viewers to guess what is going to happen next in the show. Shephard made it a goal to keep ‘A’ (the common foe that the girls and some of the towns people share) a secret throughout the series, and although there are times where you are one hundred percent sure you have guessed who it is a majority of the time you are
lives but there is a lot of dramatization in the show. For example, someone is always
Another main character of the story is Cate’s childhood best friend Vaughan. His character is a bit mysterious during the beginning of the story because it isn't quite sure why he's come to Skola. Vaughan is also initiated initiated into the society, because he helped built the Guilds networking site. Cate isn’t sure if she’s able to trust Vaughan because back home they had a bad split. Vaughan is mysterious, but a sweetheart he is thought of as adorable and is in love with Cate. Vaughans character develops into more of a dangerous and outgoing person as Cate and him set out to find the killer. Although the killer is in the back of the reader’s mind, the readers cannot be sure of the culprit till the end of the story.
The way Denfeld appeals to a reader’s emotions makes one really focus on what is going
As time went each and everyone of them became more ravenous, disrespectful, and very dysfunctional. At some points you could see their heart change to care and more than anything wish to be free again. These changes really makes the audience very tense and eager to find out what may happen.
To begin with, the characters are clear and possess both motivation and credibility. The grandmother is portrayed mostly by what she verbalizes and her actions. The grandmother
The problems created by the characters and their reactions to it show who they really are and what they believe is right.
To end this, I wanted to say I like this story because of the moral it left that is to make everyone aware that if you always keep in trying and not giving up even if there are so much obstacles in the way, you will achieve a goal and will feel yourself proud of all efforts you made. As Felicity who never give up to break the code and finally she did it. Another moral is not dropp across to fullfil a dream, we have to make it, and if we fail, we redo it until we make it well. As Aunt Miami, she thought her dream of becoming a good actress was fail until she did it and saw the fruits of her achievements.
Through mom’s, Stef and Lena, relationship with their children, complicated issues are normalized in the context of the show. It is not only a massive shift from traditional notions of a TV Family, but also gives
Hester explains her questionable feelings to Dimmesdale. She describes Pearl as her most precious treasure, but her attitude and actions make others think less of her.. Their relationship is crucial to the novel since the community shuns from society for their differences due to Hester’s sin. Dimmsdale responds with, “I have long shrunk from children, because they often show distrust- a backwardness to be familiar with me.” (186).
Ever since I was young, I have been watching tv shows like Burn Notice, Criminal Minds, NCIS, etc. It was always one of my interests. Ever since I started watching Criminal Minds, I have wanted to be a profiler. I want to because I enjoy the show, and I think it would be an interesting job. That is why I chose to do my I-Search paper on Criminal Behavior. My main question I want to focus on is “Why do criminals behave the way they do?”
However, unlike her memoir, the show does not resign itself to telling Piper’s ultimately extremely boring story. Instead the show uses her experience as a jumping point to expand into the lives of each of the women around her. It is these stories, so often ignored by mainstream media, which ultimately give the show the richness that has catapulted it to such success.
Also, this show is a very sexist show, they always make reference to women being in the kitchen and that is all they’re good at for example, in one episode peter tells Louis that making sandwiches and babies are the only thing she is good for. This kind of behaviour shows to young children that women are no good for anything because that is how the men on this show treat the women. There’s also lots of coarse language towards women, for example Quagmire a neighbours always has many women over to his house for pleasurable reasons and you hear him call them names like whores, bitches, sluts and more this foul language towards women is another bad influence. Also peter has a teenage daughter Meg, everyone in the show is mean to her. This girl is treated very badly for example in an episode she had sexual intercourse with a guy and a little after that the guy Brandon, broke up with her, in another episode she has another boyfriend Luke and Louis, her mother stole
Each of the women face hardships with family, life in general, and men. Antonia a young, Bohemian girl is faced with many challenges and hardships throughout her life. After the death of her father, Antonia is obliged to start living by working in the fields alongside the men. Every member in her family depends on her both physically and emotionally. “With the death of her father, Antonia is forced to work on the family farm for her family to survive, and this shift in her role sparks a change in her identity. Antonia now wears some of her father’s belongings to suggest that she has indeed moved into a role that her father was supposed to play” (Everton). Antonia’s brother, Ambroch, makes use of her abilities as much as he can. When she works out on the fields he profits from the cash that she earns because he is the man of the household. “Antonia worked as a hired girl at the Cutters, and she was worried about Cutter’s intentions towards her. The moneylender, Wick Cuter, was known in Black Hawk as stingy towards his customers and over friendly to young girls . . . . Wick’s wife needed to go to Omaha for the weekend, and as a result of Wick’s infidelity she forced him to go with her. Although it seemed that Wick had left with his wife, Antonia still feared his intentions and pleaded with Jim to stay the night at the Cutters in her place . . . during the
Hedda Gabler is perhaps one of the most interesting characters in Ibsen. She has been the object of psychological analysis since her creation. She is an interesting case indeed, for to "explain" Hedda one must rely on the hints Ibsen gives us from her past and the lines of dialogue that reveal the type of person she is. The reader never views Hedda directly. We never get a soliloquy in which she bares her heart and motives to the audience. Hedda is as indifferent to our analysis as she is to Tesman's excitement over his slippers when she says "I really don't care about it" (Ibsen 8). But a good psychologist knows that even this indifference is telling. Underneath the ennui and indifference
Including situations and relationships that are not fully revealed to the cast but are obvious to the audience permits them to feel included or “in on it”.